MacAddict 002 Oct 1996

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highlights

28 From Newbie to Guru

The Seven-Fold Path to Macintosh Enlightenment

You won't have to depend on someone else to solve your Mac problems if you know
these seven truths of Mac troubleshooting, by david Reynolds

The 12-Step System Diet Plan

If your System Folder is tipping the scales at 60MB or more, then maybe it’s about time
you did some housecleaning. Not only will your System Folder be slimmer, but it’ll
run better, too. by steven anzovin

The Top 21 Things
That Can Go Wrong With Your Mac

Here are some problems that you’re likely to run into at some time or other. We list
the symptoms as well as the solutions, by raines cohen

Too Many *#!@$ Systems

Aargh! Apple, Daystar, Power Computing, and Omax have all rele<

Aargh! Apple, Daystar, Power Computing,
month. There are now 22 models on store shelves-
this fall’s fashion lineup for you.

released new Macs in the last
■what’s a shopper to do? Let us sort out

BY DAVID REYNOLDS

Megahertz, schmegahertz.
We’ll give you the real
scoop on which system
you should buy.

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Okay, you know how to replace your Mac’s standard icons with those created
by someone else. Isn't time you created some of your own? Even animated ones!

Work with HTML

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every month

Editor’s Note

Wherein our editor illuminates the world’s deepest mysteries.

Letters

Say what? Are you talking to us?

Get Info

News, trends, trivia, and answers to those nagging questions.

Cravings

We pick the products that we’re lusting after.

50 Reviews

A 200MHz tower Performs, HP DeskWriter, Kai’s Power Goo,
hot new games, and WebBurst (it lets you create Java applets
without programming).

Ask Us

Well, actually, ask Owen. We answer your deepest, most troubling
questions— accurately, too.

PowerPlay

Has someone finally made a game that's smarter than your pet gerbil?

An in-depth look at how Anark's Galapagos uses artificial intelligence.

112 Shut Down

The bulletin board of the random and the bizarre.

14 Crammed with 650MB of killer content, The Disc is also a stupendous
display of leading-edge multimedia and interactivity. Check out demos,
shareware, and software that relate to articles in the magazine.

online

About Evangelist

http://www.macaddict.com

£ Third Party Products

Resources and Help

Stop on by to talk and link up with the
best Mac resources. While you’re there, get
a load of Guy Kawasaki’s EvangeList page —
MacAddict is the official host for the
ultimate Mac Booster’s Club.

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Visit Mark's awesome icons
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EDITORIAL

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Cheryl England
MANAGING EDITOR Judy Lewenthal
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Nikki Echler, David Reynolds,
Kathy Tafel, Daniel Drew Turner (reviews)

CD-ROM: Thomas Hale (director, development),
Tommy V. King (editor), Jason Michaels (intern)
ONLINE EDITOR Mark Simmons
contributing EDITORS Steven Anzovin, Raines
Cohen, Joseph 0. Holmes, Ross Scott Rubin

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PRODUCTION

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ADVERTISING

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editor’s

Enough electronic mail to make our hair stand on end.

S orry. I had planned to write a really
insightful column about some new
technology for our second issue, but I
was distracted earlier today by your letters.
I’ve read all of them — one week into the
official on sale date of MacAddict, we’ve
received about 900 letters. (I do, however,
wonder if we would have had that many
letters if e-mail didn’t exist.)

So why have your letters, something many

•THE BEST VOICEMAIL. The
award goes to the caller who phoned
Tom Hale, our CD-ROM genius, got
his voicemail, and simply said
“Owwww. Owwww." and hung up.

•THE MOST ABSURD
PR PITCH. The woman who
called because she’d heard that
there was a new magazine called
MacAddict and she wanted to know
if we’d be interested in reviewing her
company’s Windows product. Yes,
this really happened. (PR, by the
way, is short for public relations)

•THE BEST “GIVE ME, GIVE
ME” PLEA Can you send me
some sample issues? Four dozen
should do.

•MOST OBSERVANT
READER Mama Lani, keeper of
the Rec.Arts.Bodyart Tattoo FAQ
noticed that the body art bookmark
in a screen shot on page 45 was
obsolete. She didn’t provide the
correct one, though.

•THE BEST FAMILY FIGHT
Liza Hillard uses a Mac. Her daugh-
ter uses a Mac. Her son uses a Mac.
Her husband, however, uses “that
other system.” When she showed
him the photos of the Windows user
and the Mac user, he handed the
magazine back with only one
comment, “A$$holes.” Liza still wants
us to keep sending MacAddict.

magazines foist off to junior editors, taken so
much of my attention? One: They make me
laugh. They cheer me up. 1\vo: They make
me feel as though we are creating this
magazine for our best friends to read. Three:
They make me think. Let me give you some
examples of what I mean.

We’ve received a lot of letters that made
us chuckle or gave us a good guffaw (you’ll
see several of them in our Letters section this
month). But few have been as funny, while
still telling us the story of someone’s long
involvement with the Mac, as this poetic
treatise from Robin Kester (Type 11? I keep
typing 1 1 and nothing happens):

“I’m a Mac addict. I admit it, openly,
and without reservation. Even if I needed
a reservation, it would be worth waiting
for. Mac gives me pleasure each and every
day. Not just because the mouse feels
smooth and warm in my hand, or because
the display lights my way through life. Not
even because each time I boot it up it
sings to me, no matter what I did to it to
have to reboot, o/ you beta you beta you
beta/.

I love it because it’s a Mac, and it feels
good. No nightmares about Windows.

No nightmares about win.ini (I never
win.inithing ini. ways) , conftg.sys (heck I
don’t even have a syster). Plug and play.
Plug and play. Why can’t all computers be
this way?

I started on a Mac Plus and used it for
years. . . until the day I killed it.

Nay, I put it to sleep. (I wonder if they
use AfterDark in the Mac afterlife?) That
little Mac Plus served me well — it even
converted some of my PC-using friends to
Macs. Imagine that — a Mac Plus.

Of course, I grew into a PowerPC —
went big time ya know... pluggin’ atid
playin’ with the big boys. WooOooOooO!
Yeah, Pm on top of the hill, me and my
Mac. And I'm not afraid to say it: I am a
Mac addict. ”

We get other letters, too, perhaps not as
funny, but just as touching. The writers
reveal their stories of how they got involved
with a Mac, how they use their Mac, and
what they love about it. Another letter that I

especially enjoyed came from Joe Kriz. Joe
wrote in that he’d been trying to find the
iguana Easter egg on his Power Mac 7100 for
the last two hours. He told us about all the
things he’d tried to make
it work, ending with, “All
of this just to look at an
iguana flag. I must be
WACKO!!!!!” No, Joe,
you're not wacko. You’re
just like the rest of us Mac
enthusiasts. There’s this
cool thing and you’ve just
got to find it or try it and
you won’t get any rest
until you do.

Then there are the letters that make me
think. Those with suggestions for things to
run in the magazine or to do on The Disc or
the Web site. There are letters complimenting
or complaining about our design. The letters
that ask for either more PC bashing or less.

These are the letters that make me rethink
some of the things that we are doing.

For example, many of you have written in
to request that we provide better descriptions
of the shareware that we put on The Disc so
that you know what, exactly, you’re getting
before you download. This month’s CD
includes those descriptions — you'll see this
improving even more over time. Others of
you have requested that we give you some
way to turn off the sound completely. That’s a
sticky technology problem, but we’re making
it a high-priority goal to find a solution.

Over time you’ll see the magazine, The
Disc and the Web site evolve. And we’ll make
those changes with your comments in mind.

So folks, keep those cards and letters
coming. We are listening. — Cheryl England

So why have your
letters, something many
magazines foist off to
junior editors, taken so
much of my attention?

Mac ADDICT 7

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Keep those cards and letters coming, folks. It’s great to hear from you.

This Month

Reading the day's mail is now among
our favorite things to do. We love your
stories, your comments, your jokes.

We only wish we had more space to
run all of the wonderful responses.

Write to us at: MacAddict, 150 North
Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005, Attn:

Mac Dudes or send e-mail to
letters@macaddict. com.

Awww, Shucks

I bought MacAddict yesterday and I stayed up
playing with the CD-ROM until my body
couldn’t sit up any more. Next I got in bed
with the magazine and kept reading the
articles until my eyes couldn't focus any
more. I think I need a support group. My
name is Angela and I am a MacAddict Addict.
— Angela De Joseph

Great, Great, Great, Great, Great. Damn, I just
wanted to say GREAT. — Craig M. Janisch

There’s always something that comes along
that you just have to spend money on, no

A couple that surfs together...

Marc and Kimberly Bjorkman met in an AOL chat room—
Kimberly on a llsi and Marc on a Quadra 660AV. They quickly
moved the romance to IRC to cut down on their skyrocketing
AOL fees and eventually connected in real life. When they got
married, they modeled their wedding cake after the machine
that brought them together. (Check out their full story at
http://www.voicenet.com/~bjorkman/.) Got a Mac sighting?
Send it to us!

8 Mac ADDICT

PCs are running just fine!
need to clean up the Mac image.
Bill Morris

Mac Love

I am trying to get my Mac-
only software development
firm off the ground and
everybody I talk to says,
“Why would you develop
software for the Mac now ?”
I usually mutter something
serious about “reduced
competition” or “market
niche," but inside I am
thinking “Because I don’t
want to develop for anything

matter how much you promised yourself not
to, and as 1 finally put down MacAddict, I
thought, “Oh no!” — Matt Burns

You are absolutely crazy to be starting a Mac
Magazine in these dark times for Apple... but
I love you for it! — Bob Gourley

1 think purple and green look hideous
together. And I don’t think “Phat” is a word.
But I’m thrilled that someone has the guts
and the vision to launch a new Mac magazine
right now. My subscription card is in the
mail. Good luck! — Stephen Fleming

Just picked up your first issue on a drunken
whim (nothing personal) and I gotta tell you,
I love it!!! — Timmy Mac (McIntire)

Mac Advocacy

I am sending “Stand By Your Mac” to my
brother and his wife because they’re plan-
ning to buy a (shudder) Wintel PC. I pray to
the god of Mac that they will see the light and
it’s the Macintosh! — Robert S. Underhill

When I visit a computer store, and see all of
those neglected sad Macs, I go over and hit
the restart switch and rebuild the Desktop
and zap the PRAM. Then I make sure
everything is working properly and that the
desktop is nice and neat. It’s a pity how Macs
are neglected by so many stores, especially

else.” — Andrew Spangler

If I had to use a WinTel at home I'd quit
computing. — Don McClelland

Nope, Not a Chance

The Post Office BROKE MY CD!!! Is it possible
for MacAddict to send this addicted Mac user
a replacement CD? I’d really like to play with
OpenDoc! — Barry House

If you get a broken, busted, warped, or
otherwise destroyed CD, or if you suspect
your disc has not been mastered correctly,
contact our Customer Service department.
You’ll find contact info on page 89-

Details, Details

Shame on you! There’s still 45 megs on the
CD that needs to be filled! : ) — Mark
Deschamps

Yep, it drives Tom Hale nuts. He says
that his hard drive shows a different
amount than does a bum of the CD. You
wait — we’U have a happy 650MB disc yet.

In “Stand By Your Mac,” when listing the
contents of the Mac Addict’s backpack, you
left out one key tool — a paper clip, Famous
the world over. — Rick Burnell

Just Testing You

In the article “Test Yourself,” you rate
question #3’s answer “(c) Open each folder
one at a time until you find your file” with 10

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letters

points, higher than “(b) type Command-F in
the Finder." Call me crazy, but I think the
Finder’s finder (that’s possessive, not quin-
tessential) is a heck of a lot faster than
searching folders one by one! — Tom Nugent
Okay , you’re crazy ... but you're also
right. We goofed.

Whack on the Head

The CD is great, although I did need the
whack in the back of the head to get more
memory. — -John W. Farris

I have been a video editor for years on PC
systems. 1 have had one too many IRQ
conflicts and DAM, I mean DMA problems. I
have been pushed over the edge and what
better computer to get for digital video than
the one that is always on the edge of great
things than a Mac. — Ken W. Graham

Ok, We Won’t

Pay no attention to my colleague from work
(an avid IBM fan), Paul, who upon seeing the
first issue of your magazine (which I had
brought in) exclaimed “Mac Attic! So THAT’S
where all those computers you like end
up...” — John B. Jones

You Beg to Differ

I recently bought Full Tilt! Pinball. I disagree
with Mr. Linzmayer that it’s the most realistic
pinball game available. If the angle of the
playfield were the only measuring stick, then
I’d agree. But I get much more realistic
sounds and gameplay from Eight Ball Deluxe
than Full Tilt! I only now play Full Tilt! for
variation, not preference. — B.J. Major

ftN y IDIOT KNOWS that Ore

necrolytes can only raise

the dead in tNarcratt.

In the review of Warcraft: Ores & Humans,
J. Daniel Jones writes, “Later, you’ll train
raiders and necrolytes for
mounted attacks and the
ability to heal the wounded,
respectively.” Any Warcraft
addict knows that it is the
human Clerics who heal
their human comrades,
while the Ore necrolytes
only have the ability to
raise the dead. — Chris
(I really REALLY hope I
, win the Epson PhotoPC
I digital camera because
I I need one SO bad for
I the school where I
teach!) Beckwith

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I must defend the use of WriteNow as a word
processor. It’s still faster than Microsoft
Word on my Power Mac 7100, and takes up
a lot less space! — Peter Gould

Something Different

Hopefully I will be able to stay a reader
unless the mother ship comes and picks me
up. — LefiOVR X

... and last but not least, Ms. England is as
cute as a bug!!! ;-) — Bill Pellegrini
Yeah, but which bug ?

Now, for something kind of
weird. I have long wondered
why some magazines have a
distinct smell (that I hap-
pen to like). I have some-
what concluded that it has
to do with the type of ink
used in the printing process.

Your magazine smells great!!!!

What is it that contributes to the
great smell? — Steve Scipioni

Our Production Director, Richie,
rolled his eyes and said he didn’t know.
We’ll try to get you a better answer from
our printer. Stay tuned.

I purchased the premiere issue of MacAddict
today. If I subscribe will I get the next 12
issues and not just 11? Probably a stupid
question but I have to beg my wife for the
money and she wants to know exaedy what I
will be getting and we have been married 26
years! Thanks. — Gary Prevost

Yes, you will get the next 12 issues and
discs, not just 11.

Say what?

The writing in MacAddict is immature and
ineffective. The words “cool” and “neat”
instance the former, the inability to present
information according to customary forms of
exposition instance the latter. — Michael Hays

I use a PC with WIN95 at home and use a
Power Mac at school. I was disappointed to
read all kinds of stories about how the Mac is
better, and people bitchin’ and complaining
about the success of Microsoft. I was really
hoping to find a Mac magazine that didn’t fill
its pages with trash on how the Mac is so
much better. Don’t get me wrong, I like the
Mac, but I like my PC better. Unfortunately
the first issue of MacAddict will be my one

and only issue as long as it keeps filling its
pages with trash that I don’t really care
about. — Keith R. Nelson

Slipped Discs

When trying to run the demo of Overture, I
get a message saying that I need the font
“Aloisen.” Any idea where I might find it? —
Tim Berard

We’ve included the Overture demo
again this month, and we've included the
Aloisen font in the “Install these” folder
that’s accessible from the Finder. Put the
font in your System Folder
and then run the demo.

I can’t get the Bryce 2
demo installer to
work! Help me,
please! — Mark Oliver
Tuleweit

Occasionally,
you’ll find a demo that
doesn’t work properly or
is missing a piece. We’ll post
updates, fixes, and links to working demos
on our Web site as soon as we can.

I couldn’t find the System Update 2.0 on the
CD. I “found it” with Find, but the files
seemed to be missing. Is this just my copy or
an error in the master? — James Connolly
Sigh. Apple can be a bit sticky about
their licensing agreements, so the only
way to access Update 2.0 was through the
Director interface (look for the icon at
the bottom of the Resources screen). This
month you can get the update via the
interface or directly from the Finder ( it’s
in the Software Updates folder).

Like some testosterone-loaded PeeCee game
that thinks it’s the only thing you’ll ever run,
the CD resets the Mac’s sound volume to its
maximum level! — Nate Morris

Director has a glitch that’s hard to work
around. We’re trying to fix it. Meanwhile,
we hope you can still enjoy the CD.

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□ Under 18 0 36 - 45

□ 18 - 24 0 46 - 54

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3. What is your current marital
status?

□ Married

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4. What is the highest level of
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received?

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graduate

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5. Which one of the following
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the least frequently purchased.

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T his month we took your feedback to heart and added
a host of improvements to The Disc’s interface. We
enhanced performance, so screens should load more
quickly. We added a control strip that’s available on every
screen. And we made it easier to navigate all-around. As

usual, The Disc is packed with shareware, demos, tutorials,
and plenty of amusing surprises for you to discover. Don’t be
afraid to click everywhere — you won’t break the CD-ROM
and you’ll find a lot of extra goodies. Read on to find out
more about this month’s highlights and how to use The Disc.

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DEMOS

Move the cursor
over the hands to
opeo them. When
you see something
of interest, click on
it to catch a demo.
Click on the
CD-ROM in the
center tor even
more great demos.

RESOURCES
In here you’ll find tons
of helpful software.
Open a folder and
you’ll get a list of files.
Click on one and you’ll
see its description. You
can then install the file
or return to the list.

LIVE WIRE

We’ve set up a
special area on our
Web site that is acces-
sible only from The
Disc. You’ll get news,
software updates, and
more. Over time, we’ll
add even more
interaction.

INDEX

The index
has buttons
which

transport you
anywhere on
The Disc.

THIS ISSUE
Here's where you’ll
find all the software,
demos, and tutorials
related to articles in
the magazine. When
you see The Disc
icon in the magazine,
you’ll know it’s
pointing here.

HELP ME!
Click on any
help button
to find out
what to do.

14 Mac ADDICT

Getting Started

When you first pop in The Disc,
you’ll see this window.

If you are running System 7.5.3,
you don’t need anything in the
“Stuff you might need” folder to
run The Disc. If you aren’t
running System 7.5.3, then you
may need some of the files in
this folder.

If you have an older 680x0-
based Mac, click on “Start

A 29 items 638.7 MB in disk zero K available I

A Ot CZT Q

Install these in your System
folder only if you need them.

This Issue Shareware

Essentials Start Here (68k) Start Here (PPC)

Sponsors Emerging Technologies Software Updates

Here (68K). If you have a newer
PowerPC-based Mac click
“Start Here (PPC).”

If you don’t have enough System memory to launch The Disc you can still access
and install all of the included software and demos. Just go to the Desktop, open the
folders, and browse through them.

Clicking on the MacAddict logo won’t cause anything to open, but you can move
pieces of the logo around, in essence creating your own jigsaw puzzle. Just close
the window and the logo returns to normal.

Requirements

To access all of The Disc’s features, you’ll need 12MB of real RAM if you’re running
System 7.1 or earlier; 16MB of real RAM if you’re running System 7.5 or later.

If you don’t have enough RAM, you can still access all of the software, demos and
tutorials on The Disc from the main folder.

You need a 13” monitor that has a resolution of 640 x 480 and 256 colors.

e'll be the first to admit that
we're not perfect. In fact, we've
set up a special place on our Web site

. .

devoted to our imperfections. If you |
find a problem with The Disc, stop by
http://www.macaddict.com/cdroVi
before you send us e-mail. If the
problem is not addressed on the site,
then please let us know about it at
letters@macaddict.com.

However, we can’t take responsi-
bility for others’ mistakes. If a program
on The Disc other than our main inter-
face crashes, please contact the man-
ufacturer. They’ll be able to give you
much better technical support. (You
can usually find contact information in
the accompanying Read Me file.)

Finally, for those of you who
couldn’t access System 7.5 Update
2.0 because you didn’t have enough
memory to use The Disc's front end,
we've included the program in a
Software Updates folder that you can
access from the Finder,

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MacADDICT 15

the disc

Things You Need To Know

1 To exit out of any of the videos on the
front page, click on the (unmarked)
button on the far left.

2 When the cursor turns into a lower
case “i” there’s something to click on.

3*lf you get a “-108 error” message

when attempting to run a demo, you don’t have enough RAM installed to run
the demo and the interface at the same time. Go to the Desktop and access
the demo from there.

Win!Win!Win!

This copy of Fractal Design Expression: a fantastic new illustration tool

O ur first contest was Follow the ptero-
so successful, we
decided to give you more
BONUS stuff. (At press
time, the contest for the
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I PJ, — iJs open — well announce

ilLM^ggilM H| | the winner next month.)

We’re telling you about
the contest in print, but you’ll have to use both the CD-ROM
and the Web site to win. First, you’ll need to find a BONUS
hotspot on the main screen of The Disc. Click around; even-
tually this charming pterodactyl will squawk at you. Don’t you
just want to click on him to see what he does?

: or Control

Use the thumb on the left to
toggle the strip on and off.

Back takes you to the
previous screen.

Menu takes you to the Main
(first) screen.

“i” takes you to the index,

“Q” quits the CD.

The speaker slider controls
volume. This month the volume
stays the same as you've set it, no
matter where you go on The Disc.

dactyl to a screen
that looks sort of
like a telephone keypad. After you enter the BONUS (hint)
code on the CD-ROM, your Mac coughs up another code to
enter on the MacAddict Web site. By filling out a form on the
Web site, you’ll be entered into our drawing to win a copy of
this BONUS software.

S Demos

D emos give you a taste of the products you’ve read about.

Run them from either The Disc’s front-end or from the
Finder directly. Some demos are self-running videos while oth-
ers allow you to actually use the product. Those that let you use
the product are generally “crippled” in some way. For example,
you won’t be able to access all of the program’s functions or they
will expire after a certain amount of time (usually about a month).

1 . Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

This awesome sequel to Blizzard’s
Ores & Humans will have you
screaming for more. (It should be
out in September or October.) Play
either the ores or the humans in a
few campaigns. While the demo
betrays its PC roots — “Exit pro-
gram”— the game uses Apple’s
Game Sprockets technology to bring 3D sound and speech
recognition (for entering cheat codes) to Power Macs. Be
sure to click on each of the different buildings and charac-
ters to hear what they have to say.
The peasants are especially
dim-witted! (You’ll find this demo in
the demo folder on the CD.)

2. Muppet Treasure Island

In Activision’s latest game for kids
and kid-like adults, you’ll need to

splat the buccaneers with pies to earn money to buy clothes.
Don’t hit the customers or you’ll lose money.

3. Overture

Last month we goofed! To
use the Opcode Overture
demo, you needed a font we
didn’t give you. This month
we put that font in the
“Install these in your System
Folder only if you need
them” folder. Open up the
Aloisen font folder and drag
the contents onto your
System Folder before you try out this great music program.

4. Project X

Here’s the latest from
Apple Research Labs.

Using Project X, you
can fly through 3D
space to navigate Web
sites. To find out if
Project X can do more
than just give great
demo, read our story
in this month’s Get Info. Note: Project X will not work direct-
ly from the CD. You will need to copy it to your hard drive.

16 MacADDICT

5. SmartSound

SmartSound, from Sonic Desktop Software, helps you for everything from home movies to self-indulgent amuse-
compose masterpieces — without the childhood trauma of ment. Using the demo, we created a MacAddict original
parentally imposed piano, violin, and accordian lessons — background piece in about two minutes.

After choosing Maestro (as opposed
to Editor) we decided how long the
piece should be.

2, The demo version only let us pick
one theme, but at least we knew
exactly what we were getting.

3, When you click finish, you can listen to the
piece over and over, or tweak it in the editor.

More Demos

Afterlife

Myrmidon

Zork Nemesis

Bonkheads

Shockwave Assault

Kai’s Power Goo

Bricks

WebQuick

Descent II

ft Files

W We’ve created installers for all of the programs in the
Files area. If you decide you don’t want something
you’ve installed, run an uninstaller to get rid of it. One
caveat— we can only track the things we put in your System
Folder. So for system utilities like Aaron, we can delete the
extension, but not the items that exist outside the System
Folder. That said, to run the uninstaller, open an installer
from the front end or from the Finder and hold down the
Option key — you’ll see the uninstall options.

Fun and Games

MacSokoban

MacSokoban is a great
little strategy game. It’s
all brain and no brawn
as you manipulate the
boxes into their proper
places. Just don’t get
suck with two boxes
along a wall!

Property

Property is a tame game
where you gather deeds to
properties along a four-
sided board. Sound famil-
iar? It is, except this game
was created by a Brit, so the
street names are all screwy.

mu' Haqwl'

Curious what Worf mutters under
his breath when Sisko won’t
fight? Look it up in mu’ Haqwl’s
Klingon dictionary.

System Utilities

Shrinkwrap

Curious what to do with disk “images?” Use ShrinkWrap to
mount image files on the Desktop. The System will be
fooled into thinking they’re the original floppy disks. To
mount image files, simply drag and drop the image file
icons onto the ShrinkWrap icon.

General

Heritage

Heritage will help you track your roots. It even imports
and exports GEDCOM files. You can also imbed digitized
photographs in your family tree.

Connectivity

NetPresenz

NetPresenz Setup

Got a 24-hour
Internet con-
nection? Set
up a Web and
FTPp server in no time with Peter Lewis’ NetPresenz. The
program uses your File Sharing preferences to allow the
FTP connections, so it’s a piece of cake to learn.

Mac ADDICT 17

the disc

he Web Site «This Issue

or your daily dose of
Macintosh mayhem, come on
by http://www.macaddict.com.
You’ll find news, hot links, rants
and raves, and tons of discussions.

ffi Do Good for the Mac!

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Looking for mater-
ial to help you
evangelize the
Mac? You’ll find all
the resources you
could ever want:
heartwarming anecdotes, Windows
horror stories, vital Internet
resources, sightings of celebrity
Mac users, products for specialized
markets, and more-on the
EvangeList Web Site, at http://www.
evangelist.macaddict.com.

Where does all this great stuff
come from? From you, the
Mac-loving public. The EvangeList
Web Site contains a collection of
messages from Guy Kawasaki’s
famous mailing list, where 30,000
or more die-hard Mac fans trade
facts, news and testimonials to
help each other promote the Mac
cause. On the Web site, these
messages are sorted by category
to make it easy to find the informa-
tion you need. As with any good
Web site, you also get daily

his issue we give you every possible
shareware and freeware tool you will ever
need to help keep your Mac in tiptop shape.

Highlights

Disinfectant

John Norstad’s
generous con-
tribution to the
Macintosh com-
munity protects

your Mac from viral infections. In addition to
diagnosing infections, Disinfectant installs an
extension that notifies you when you insert
infected floppies.

ExAminer

ExAminer helps
you keep track
of your System
Folder contents.
It can also move

Ask Us

This month Owen
Linzmayer gives you the skinny on hard-
ware caches. Use this utility to find out what
you’ve got.

How To

PageSpinner

Part 2 of Joseph
Holmes’ Web School
introduces you to
HTML. Make your
HTML writing easier
with this color-coded
text editor.

files to the disabled folders, enabling you to
hunt down conflicts.

?Live Wire

L ive Wire is your private connection to our
Web site. Hook up and you’ll get informa-
tion on updates to software on The Disc, sneak
previews of our next issue, and hot news
about the Mac. There are a few things you
should know before connecting, however.

ResEdit

Even newbies can learn to wreak havoc
with ResEdit after reading Kathy Tafel’s
how-to. Customize individual folder icons,
change icons system-wide, and do even
more innocent damage with Apple’s
resource editor.

Once you’ve set up an Internet account,
you’ll need to start your Internet connection
manually. If you’re using MacPPP, open the
ConfigPPP control panel and click the
“Connect Now” button. Choose the “Yes, I am
connected” button. You can then connect to an

updates and lots of useful links.

Not every message from the
list is archived on the Web site;
for the full EvangeList experience,
true Mac loyalists should sign up
for the mailing list at http://www.
solutions.apple.com/ListAdmin.

If you don t have a
modem or a direct con-
nection, you’re SOL. If
you have a modem, but
not an ISP account, you
can take advantage of a
special deal we’ve set
up with Earthlink, a
national ISP. Go to the
Live Wire area and click
on the “No, I’m not connected” button. You’ll
get an intro to the Internet, contact informa-
tion for other ISPs and information on
Earthlink’s special offer.

area on our Web site set
up especially for users
of The Disc.

Live Wire is not a
real Web browser. For
now, all we’re able to
put into the interface is
text. When the technol-
ogy allows us to put
links and pictures and
QuickTime movies and Java applets and
frames and... well, you get the picture.
We’re on top of it and will strive to bring
you the best.

When you need to find good news on
any subject from education, to Newton
software, to why Windows users are in a
living hell, the EvangeList Web Site is the

perfect electronic bookshelf.

If you’re having trouble with any aspect of
our super-phat CD-ROM, be sure to check

our CD-ROM Update page at http://www.
macaddict.com/cdrom. Late-breaking
information, debugged demos and trouble-
shooting tips are now available here for
the benefit of vexed readers. Don’t come
crying to us for hints on the contests and
Easter eggs, though.

— Mark Simmons

18 MacADDICT

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fnggin clarinet with ike kiggesl
ligkining holt you can muster, ffy.men

The lightning bolt Carol asked for never came. So she diffused her
anger by playing ABUSE and filling Leon's instrument with lard.

Napalm Bombs, Lightning Prods, and the Death Sabre. Just a few of the toys at your
disposal when you play ABUSE. Created by Crack dot Com, and brought to the Mac by
Bungie Software, ABUSE is 360° of side-scrolling action through industrial corridors,
caverns, and picturesque sewers. Lay waste to mutant hordes as you run, jump, and fall
in every direction. And 8-person ABUSE network play is the healthy, prison-free way to
release your pent-up aggressions toward small, yippy dogs and egomaniacal clarinet players.

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Crack dot Com ore trademarks of Crack dot Com. Bungie is a trademark of Bungie Software Products Corporation. All rights reserved.

FIND A
DEMO of
Project X on
The Disc.

Project X

Apple’s Secret Weapon?

E

Navigate the Web
in a sort of 3D space.

Last month, we put a Power
Computing PowerWave
604/1 50 into the hands of
long-time PC user, James
Fallows (formerly of The
Atlantic Monthly and recently pro-
moted to Editor of U.S. News &
World Report). Our goal: to make
him give up PCs forever.

So how’s it going? We’re a bit
behind schedule since Jim’s pro-
motion has kept him a tad busy
(200 staffers all needing help
NOW!). Here’s what he has to say
so far: “I was so accustomed to
IRQ conflicts, memory-manage-
ment headaches, differing SCSI
addresses, and other Windows
delights that I dreaded setting up
the Mac. You’ll snicker to know
that my reaction was ‘Hey, no
problem.’ The biggest surprise
about the programs and the OS
is how hard the Windows world
has tried to copy their basics,
without yet emulating the ‘fit and
finish’ that makes the Mac easy.”

Is it all a bed of roses? No.

Jim has yet to do The True Test:
seeing if the Mac can handle the
fancy data-sorting and idea-gen-
erating tricks he has come to rely
upon with Windows software.

f

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7

ven some of the more jaded types
here at MacAddict were wowed
by a demo of Apple’s wizzy new
Project X: it let us zoom through a 3D rep-
resentation of cyberspace. But Project X is
no longer just a humble technology pro-
ject: It's now a key part of Apple’s Internet
strategy, according to Larry Tester, VP of Internet
Platforms. So it’s time to take a hard look at what
lies behind the demo.

The prototype application includes a portion of
the Yahoo Web directory in the Meta-Content Format
(MCF) used by Project X. Launch the application,
and you’ll find yourself in a sort-of-three-dimen-
sional space, zooming about the Yahoo hierarchy
with just a click of the mouse. The hierarchy can
also be browsed via a less-exotic, Finder-style out-
line. Either way, when you find the page you’re look-
ing for, a double-click will
open it in your Web browser.
An upcoming Netscape plug-
in promises to make Project
X navigation more integral
with your Web-browsing
experience.

Project X’s universe is
not, of course, limited to the Yahoo directory. You
can drag and drop new MCF files into the applica-
tion to expand its horizons, or drag folders from
your desktop to add their contents to the Project X
world. One of the selling points of Project X is that
you can meld documents from your desktop and
from the Internet into a personalized information
space, which can be manipulated at your whim and
then exported as an MCF file for use by other
Project X buffs.

Okay, so that sounds like fun. However, Project
X faces a couple of major obstacles.

The first problem lies in its dependence on
MCF files. Rather than analyzing the structure of
Web sites on the fly, Project X requires the site’s
creator to supply an MCF file that represents the

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IN PROJECT X, your files rub shoulders with Yahoo.

site’s structure. To date, only a handful of sites have
such files and these are neither comprehensive nor
regularly updated. Given the number of files that
compose a typical Web site, the rate at which they
change, and the paucity of MCF authoring tools, it’s
unlikely that most Webmasters will create the
indexes — and those that do will probably supply
only a basic outline.

So, how do you create an MCF directory of a
Web site? Editing MCF files by hand is tedious
work: it makes HTML authoring seem fun. If you
have a Mac-based Web server, you can drag your
folder structure into Project X, export this hierar-
chy as an MCF file and use it as a starting point.
More promisingly, Geoff King of the Aus-tralian
Legal Information Institute is working on a CGI that
automatically generates a current MCF directory
that with some refinement will enable sites to sup-
port Project X with no extra effort.

The second problem lies in navigation.
Browsing a Web site with Project X is often quick-
er and more elegant than clicking through page
after page in a Web browser, but when you reach a
page like Yahoo’s “Countries” directory and two
hundred floating boxes pop up... well, good luck
finding Sri Lanka. Of course, overcrowded areas
could be reworked for easier Project X navigation,
but this would entail extra work for the creator of
the MCF file.

And there’s the rub. Just as a Web site requires
regular maintenance and navigation-friendly
design, so too do the MCF files. To become a useful
tool, Project X needs to do more of the work. — MS

20 MacADDICT

Cyberdog

Faster, Slimmer, Better

A s part of its Internet
strategy, Apple has
committed to aggres-
sively supporting Cyberdog, the
company’s means of integrating
the Internet into documents. In
addition to public beta tests
(when was the last time you
downloaded a beta version of
the next system software?),

THE NEWEST CYBERDOG Apple is updating Cyberdog on

a more frequent schedule than
its previous software. If Apple can follow through on the rest of its
Internet strategy as well as it has with Cyberdog, it might actually
beat Microsoft to the land of true OS/Intemet integration.

Version 1.1 includes changes to the OpenDoc-ness of Cyberdog.
There’s an application icon which launches Cyberdog into its own
process — no more “the Cyberdog mail system is in use by another
document” messages. And gone is the disorienting “Document”
menu; it’s replaced by a more standard File menu with a Quit item.

A host of other new features improves Cyberdog’s usability. While
version 1.0 was a great technology demonstration, this version
makes us actually want to use the product. Cyberdog has been opti-
mized for faster performance. A new Windows menu item tracks
open windows and provides easy access to commonly used docu-
ments like the log and notebook. And you can finally drag to select
items in a fist.

Besides these necessary improvements, the new dog has some
downright cool features. It supports the Get URL Apple Event, so you
can set up Cyberdog as your helper app for everything (before it
would just open up the first notebook and do nothing). To aid in

A FIREFLY? But why?

Q: What made you choose Flash the
FireFly as the host of “Let's Pretend!
Space is our Playground!”?

A: That’s a good question.

We wanted to do something
different and we looked around
and saw that ‘gee, nobody is
doing fireflies.’ The same thing
with the ants. It's something differ-
ent. And the firefly has a lot of
dimensions... It’s multicultural and gen-
der-neutral. It’s a great way to bring
children into the creative world without
any hang-ups.

— James Cooper, Vice President of
Ringling Multimedia

your transition, Cyberdog will import your
Netscape bookmark files and your Eudora
mailboxes and nicknames files. And something
truly mind-bending-Appletalk servers are now
Cyberitems. This means you can embed an
Appletalk network browser inside a Web browser
since Cyberdog now supports the embed tag. You
can click on a fink and Cyberdog will open the
server in the Finder.

Cyberdog is not the lumbering Saint Bernard
it was in version 1.0, but neither is it yet a grey-
hound. We’d like to see the browser support text alignment and
frames, and have a horizontal scrollbar. Aside from these niggling
details, version 1 . 1 is a well-made, substantive upgrade. As reflected
in the new spaniel mascot, Cyberdog is shaping up to be an energetic
best friend. — KT

LAST MONTH’S CYBERDOG

8X CD-ROM DRIVES

Faster, But More Expensive

L ike it or not, CD-ROM
drive rotation speed
(how fast it spins the
disc) has been cranked yet
again, this time to 8X. And, yet
again, the higher speed CD-ROM
drives deliver marginally better
speed than their predecessors,
4X drives, in some activities and
little or no boost in others.
Whether or not they’re fast (or
necessary), they are standard
equipment in the latest Macs and
as external SCSI drives. Since
fear of obsolescence drives
much of the computer market,

you may be wondering “Will I
be left in the metaphoric Dark
Ages if I don’t buy an 8X drive?”

No, you won’t. Although 8X
drives are the new de facto Mac
standard, they aren’t necessary.
Currendy, there is no software
that requires 8X speed, and that
isn’t likely to happen overnight.
By the time it does (if it ever
does), DVD should be on the
scene and the whole disc scene
will change anyway.

If you buy a new Mac with
an 8X drive, congratulations.
You’re on the leading edge of

the CD-ROM curve, and it won’t
hurt you a bit to have that bit of
extra speed. However, if you’re
in the market for a CD-ROM
drive and you don’t want to buy
a whole new Mac to go around
it, purchase a 4X drive. While an
8X drive will cost about twice as
much as a 4X drive (around
$300 compared to around
$150), you won’t get a com-
mensurate speed increase for
your money, and you won’t be
able to do anything you couldn’t
with a 4X drive. (If you’re really
in the market for a bargain,
check out 2X and 3X drives for
under $100.) Use the $150 you
save to buy a few CD-ROMs to
play in that brand new 4X box.
You’ll be glad you did. — DR

Now that’s the Spirit!

We've already made desktop patterns,
QuickMail forms and color printouts of Power
Computing’s promotion for its faster-than-a-
Pentium, 225MHz PowerTower Pro. Find it at
their Web site: http://www.powercc.com. (Oh,
and by the way, that’s not Sluggo. Nope,
Sluggo is heavily copyrighted. It’s Jobi.)

Mac ADDICT 21

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NEW

RAM DOUBLER 2.0

(Connectix Corporation: 800-950-
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The Mac’s best virtual
up-grade is now even better.
RAM Doubler 2 tricks your
Mac into thinking it has up to
three times as much RAM as it
does. You’ll need a 68030 or better
processor and 8MB of RAM.

ACROBAT 3.0

(Adobe: 800-521-1976; http://www.adobe.
com; $295 (srp); ships August)

Acrobat performs some snappy new
tricks: Web surfers can view PDF
files directly in browsers, look at
documents a page at a time, per-
form OCR, do full-text searches of
PDF documents, create and use
forms with text fields and checkbox-
es, and use buttons and hotspots to
control embedded movies or sound.
All this, and support for Kanji, too.

STUDIOPRO 2.0

(Strata: 800-787-2823; http://www.strata3d.
com; $1495 (srp); ships late September)

StudioPro has been rewritten: you
can create images without so much
sweat. All modeling now happens in
the main modeling window; model-
ing controls have been improved
and include new camera controls, a
grid, nudge keys, Bezier curve and
polygonal-based modeling features.
StudioPro offers new animation
techniques, a faster rendering
engine, plug-in support, and PAL
video output capabilities. It also
supports VRML and QuickTime 2.5.

DETAILER

(Fractal Design: 408-688-5300;
http://www.fractal.com; $449 (srp); ships
September)

With Detailer, you use Painter’s nat-
ural media tools (including the
Image Hose) to paint directly onto
3D objects. You can create texture
maps and bump maps and apply
them to models. You can even make
images glow and reflect light.

Create models within Detailer using
simple primitives or import 3DMF,
Ray Dream Studio and Ray Dream
Designer models. —DR and CE

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SUPER STANDARDS

T he PowerPC Platform (formerly known as
CHRP, or Common Hardware Reference
Platform) is touted as the no-fault divorce
for the computer world. Supposedly, you’ll see
computers based on the PPCP specifications from a
variety of vendors next year, all running the Mac
OS. Like marriage and divorce, though, PPCP is
fraught with enticing fantasies that hide more mun-
dane realities. Here are a few:

Fantasy: PPCP computers will be cheaper
because manufacturers will be able to use less-
expensive components.

Fact: PPCP computers may be a bit cheaper for
this reason, but don't count on plummeting
prices. Savings will most likely be less than $100.

Fantasy: PPCP computers will let you switch
between operating systems on a whim.

Fact: While this is true, there’s a deeper level to
this. Who wants to learn more than one operating
system? Although many know the Mac OS and
Windows NT, Sun’s Solaris is a pretty specialized
operating system, that relatively few people use.
Most PPCP users will still start up with one —
maybe two — operating systems, not six.

Fantasy: PPCP computers are a hardware
innovation.

Fact: PPCP computers are standards and mar-
keting innovations. PPCP hardware isn’t difficult
to assemble. And PPCP specs are based on cur-
rent components. For example, PPCP-based com-
puters should be able to use peripherals designed
for the PC world, and while that should make
many, especially serious gamers, happy, it's hardly
an innovation. Computer manufacturers — Power
Computing among them — say they will easily have
hardware ready by the time the PPCP-compatible
version of System 7.5-3 ships sometime early in
1997. On the other hand, PPCP manufacturers do
say that, because the standards allow for different
internal components, hardware built on the PPCP
standard may be faster than non-PPCP computers.
As far as marketing goes, “cross-platform” and
“multiple operating systems” sound great on a
press release, and PPCP has those words aplenty.

Fantasy: PPCP computers are nothing but
vapor.

Fact: Prototype PPCP computers have already
been shown booting System 7.5.3 and Windows
NT, and observers say they’re fast. — DR

MACINTOSH MYSTERY

Win this great software!

W e’ve created a fiendishly
clever Mac-related prob-
lem; it’s up to you to supply the
solution. Send your answer to:
www.macaddict.com/contest or
snailmail it to us and we’ll pick
one lucky entrant among those
who have the right solution (or
something vaguely close if no
one can guess) to win a copy of
Symantec's Norton Utilities,
Symantec’s SAM and Casady &
Greene’s Conflict Catcher. Here’s
the dilemma:

Arthur, a naturalist who
tracks the fur-licking habits of
the rare, gray-spotted ocelomar-
mot, lives among the redwoods
in a cabin with an unreliable
wood stove. Because of the cool,
moist climate and because the

area doesn’t get much sunlight,
Arthur spends a lot of his time
indoors. In his cabin, he has a
Centris 650 and several hundred
floppy disks on which he has
collected his fur-licking data.

After a particularly damp
winter, Arthur goes to look at his
data from the last three years.
The deadline for a national grant
for ocelomarmots is looming,
and he needs to complete his
report. When he inserts the first
floppy into his Centris, fear sets
in: the disk is unreadable.

He ejects the disk, then tries
another. It, too, is damaged. He
fires up Norton Utilities, but it
can’t read either disk. So he tries
a few more. All of his old data
disks seem to be damaged!

Take home SAM, Conflict Catcher,
and Norton Utilities

Thinking that it might be the
age of the disks, he inserts a disk
that he used last week. Now it,
too, seems to be damaged. “Ah
ha,” Arthur thinks. “It must be
my floppy drive.” It isn’t — a
brand-new disk worked. In a fit
of despair at the end to his
ocelomarmot watching days,
Arthur breaks open an old,
damaged disk. There inside, he
discovers the culprit behind the
global disk failure. What does
Arthur find inside the disk? The
answer next month. — DR

22 MacADDICT

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Virtual Memory

Use It or Lose It

A s husky programs greedily demand more and
more RAM, you may be tempted to activate
virtual memory for an extra RAM boost. But if
you’re not sure how much virtual storage is enough, or
whether you should use it at all, you’re not alone.
Chiming on virtual memory makes your Mac use empty
hard drive space as though it were a RAM chip.)

No two opinions on virtual memory are alike. Read
your user’s manual and you’ll find that you should only
have virtual memory on when you’re short on RAM and
then you should quickly turn it off, or suffer slower
overall performance. Call Apple public relations and
they’ll tell you to keep virtual memory running at all
times, except when doing high-end graphics. Call Apple
tech support and a guy named Greg will tell you to keep
virtual memory on at all times. Power Mac native
programs will boast a 30
percent speed increase, he The best advice?
claims. Of course, he then

admits that he needs to Take advantage of

“brush up on the subject.”

So what’s the deal? low RAM prices.

The best advice is to take

advantage of the current rock-bottom RAM prices and
beef up your memory. After all, there is no substitute for
the real thing. But if you can't afford real memory (or
don’t want to use Connectix’s RAM Doubler), virtual
memory can help you out of a RAM pinch.

Your user’s manual is on the mark when it advises
against using virtual memory full time. Having virtual
memory on will drag you down since your Mac
will waste time swapping data to and from your hard
disk. If you truly need extra RAM, then limit virtual
memory to a maximum setting of twice the size of your
installed RAM. Any more than that and your Mac will
begin excessively moving memory around which, again,
will decrease speed. For best performance, set virtual
memory to the minimum
setting — 1MB above your
physical RAM.

Here’s what it boils down
to: turn on virtual memory
when you’re short on RAM,
but don’t leave it on all the
time. Using virtual memory on
a case-per-case basis won’t
slow your daily work and will
forestall potential conflicts
with high-end graphics pro-
grams. Remember nothing
is bad in moderation, not
even virtual memory. — NE

Free Stuff

Apple doesn’t give away
Macs, but it does offer free
propaganda. Here’s what you
can get (call 800-825-2145):

•“Mac or Windows?” video
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•“Why Do People Prefer
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•“50 Mac Advantages”
brochure (L00440C)

•“Why Macintosh?”
brochure (L01667A)

One Up Whoopi

Reach Out and Touch Over the Internet.

A re you sick of Whoopi, Candice
and Ed O’Neill telling you who
offers the best phone service?
Frustrated by telemarketers who
believe the world arises at 9 a.m. on
Saturdays in eager anticipation of
special long-distance offers?

How’d you like to talk as
long as you’d like to anyone
in the world and not pay a
single red dime a minute to
any long distance company?

With a microphone-equipped
Mac, you can exact revenge
on the long-distance leaders,
at least for now.

Internet phones, such as
VocalTec’s Internet Phone,
and Third Planet Publishing’s
ePhone (formerly NetPhone
and soon to be DigiPhone for
Macintosh), digitize your voice so it
becomes just another data type,
happily bounding down the information
highway until it is decoded at the other
end and played. Many of the programs
are half-duplex: participants must take
turns talking. Some, though, allow both
people to talk at the same time, aka full
duplex. Apple has even become part of
the Net telephony game via its
QuickTime Conferencing software,
which allows audio as well as video
conversations to occur over the Net.

There are a few caveats. First,
because of the compression, conver-
sations sound like they’re coming in
through the speaker of an AM radio,
although improvements in bandwidth
and compression quality will soon
likely create digital conversations that
rival telephone quality. Second, you
must be connected to the Internet in
order for the phone software to be in a
“receive mode.” If you’re not connect-
ed, there’s no way to activate the
phone call. You can keep an address
book of people you want to call. If
they’re not there, some
software will give you the
option to record a “voice

Talk as long as
you’d like to any-
one in the world
and don't pay a
single red dime a
minute to any
phone company.

mail” message. The biggest problem,
however, is finding who has what system
and when they’re connected. While there
are several Net telephony products, none
of them talk to each other, and few work
between Macs and PCs (VocalTec’s

Internet Phone is a note-
worthy exception; more are
on the way). Some Internet
directory companies like
Fourl 1 or WhoWhere may
step into this role, or it may
be addressed in the future
by new protocols.

So, if that’s the state of
the art today, what does
tomorrow hold? In July,
Internet service provider
IDT announced that it
would be possible for Net
users to place calls to regular telephone
users through its Net2Phone service.
There are two catches, though. First, you
have to also use IDT as your long-dis-
tance service provider. Second, while the
rates for such calls are lower than what
you might pay for an average long-dis-
tance call, they’re higher than those for a
computer-to-computer call placed over
the Internet.

What about placing an “Internet phone
call” from a standard telephone? At least
one Net telephony vendor is working on
it, and on using the Internet for telephone-
to-telephone calls. Phone company
reactions are mixed. Some are trying to
introduce legislation to outlaw or regulate
Internet telephony. Others, like NYNEX,
are heavily investing in Internet telephony
companies like VDO, an Israeli company
that delivers video over the Internet.

Should you download, install, set up,
and use Internet phone software? The
audio is quite decipherable but below
telephone quality and speaking into your
Mac’s mike may seem awkward. Connec-
tions are easily lost, so it’s not as reliable
as a regular phone call. Using the Internet
as a phone is still not viable for everyday
use, but it is feasible if you make advance
preparations. — Ross Scott Rubin

24 MacADDICT

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I information delivery service! (But it won’t wash your
car.) It’s PointCast Network, and it may be the future of news on the
Internet. The PointCast Network, using PointCast client software (soon
to be available in beta for Mac users), lets you choose the information
you want (selecting from Reuters news, a Standard and Poor’s
Comstock ticker, AccuWeather forecasts, the SportsTicker, and online
versions of Time, People and Money magazines), and when to have it

delivered to your

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addresses, and will work with America Online, CompuServe and
Prodigy. The second best thing about PointCast is that, through SmartScreen, PointCast Network can be used as a screensaver, using
your computer’s down time to keep you up-to-date. The best part is, since PointCast Network is supported by advertisers, it’s free. A
beta Macintosh version of the PointCast Network viewer should be available for download at http://www.pointcast.com. To find out
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SAGEM Planet ISDN GeoPort Adapter. With this hummin’ gadget

hooked up to

WOW, CATCHY NAME, PRETTY BOX, AND A FAST, EASY ISDN, your Mac’s

GeoPort (at a

list price of $495), you’ll be able to get up to 128Kbps connections —
more than twice as fast as other external ISDN devices hooked up to
the Mac’s serial port. Prepare yourself for some fast surfing, video
conferencing, and (gasp!) being able to talk on your phone while
using the modem at the same time on the same ISDN line. Cool, huh?
For more information, call 408-446-8690 or use your non-GeoPort-
ISDN connection to surf to http://www.satusa.com.

orange on an olive-green background in a Web
page, at least you’ll sleep easy knowing it looks the same on
both a Mac and a PC, thanks to ColorWeb by Pantone. ColorWeb
uses the 216 colors that display on both platforms without dither-
ing— they pay

STEADY COLOR ACROSS THE WEB, ONLY FROM PANTONE. people to find

these things

out — and makes a color picker out of those colors. Thus, for only
$29.95, you can paint in nearly 8-bit color and have the peace of
mind that comes with knowing that your results will be consistent
across the Web. To gain your piece of peace, go to
http://www.pantone.com or call 201-935-5500.

( Femer Choices')

26 MacADDICT

Cordless MouseMan / GyroPoint

LogiTech / Gyration

A brie factory can’t attract a pair of mice this nice. For those
interested in a freestyle approach to mousing, LogiTech
(510-795-8500 or http://www.logitech.com) has introduced the
Cordless MouseMan with a suggested retail price of $79.95
This three-button marvel comes in two parts: a receiver that
plugs into the ADB port, and a mouse (no wires) that works up
to six feet from the receiver (we’ve had great results with
longer distances, but then the screen gets pretty hard to read).

For those who want to free themselves from the shackles
of the mousepad and don’t mind the cord, Gyration (800-31 6-
5432 or http://www.gyropoint.com) presents the GyroPoint
mouse. When on the

desktop, this nifty two- TAILLESS OR PADLESS: THIS PAIR PROMOTES CHOICE.

button mouse works

like any other, but when you lift it off the surface, a tiny gyro-
scope takes over, turning small wrist motions into mouse
movements. For $149 (srp), you, too, can take off from the
desktop without special software — the GyroPoint mouse uses
the Mac OS mouse driver.

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DOCUMENT INTO AN HTML PAGE. REALLY.

iplicity have long
been words associated with the Macintosh way of doing
things. Unfortunately, those words rarely apply to authoring
Web pages, what with HTML, graphics file formats, and the
like. Myrmidon (and, no, we can’t pronounce it either—
although we think we spelled it right), by Terry Morse
Software, adds the

touch of Mac class to COMMAND-P TURNS A QUARKXPRESS
Web page creation
(for only $39.95),

especially for those who have existing documents that they
want to publish on the Web. Myrmidon acts like a printer.

Simply print your document, and Myrmidon goes to work,
converting it into an HTML document,
complete with tables. Myrmidon has
some other nifty abilities, including the
ability to send e-mail from within any
application through Apple Events. To
find out more, call 415-858-1017, or
download a demo of Myrmidon from
htfo://www.tenymorse.com.

FIND A
DEMO of
Myrmidon
on The Disc.

D o a little dance, make a little love, control your game tonight. It’s possible
with the Z6n game controller. This cute little polyhedron (4" x 4”) watches
you from its resting place, seeing movement in a cone-
shaped area. All you

have to do is move PYRAMID POWER KEEPS AN EYE ON YOUR EVERY GAMING MOVE,
in that cone, and the

Z6n interprets your movement, letting you play
fighting games with actual punches and kicks, or
control an A-10 with a finger movement. For $99,
you can have a machine that watches your every
move and does something about it. To enter the Z6n,
call 818-907-0575 or e-mail info@percepsys.com.

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Body

MacADDICT 27

cravings

7 paths

Software That Helps

F inding true Macintosh enlight-
ment isn’t a journey to take alone.
You’ll need to carry these utilities
with you. (To help, we’ve included
them on The Disc.) Each set of utili-
ties corresponds to a path that is
outlined in the article.

Backup:

• BU Reminder

• SoftBackup II

• SimpleBackup

• SmartSaver

• SwitchBack

• Synk

Maintenance:

• TechTool

Cache:

• Cache-22

• CacheHit
RAM:

• Fuel Level

• Memory
Minder

• OptiMem
Demo

• RAM Check

• ramBunctious
System Heap:

• FixHeap

• Mac OS Purge

• MemMapper

• Conflict
Catcher Demo

• Extensions
List

• Symbionts

Section 5:

• MacsBug

• Terminator
Strip

Preferences:

• CacheBGonell

• PrefKiller

• Trash Bag

• Yank

PRAM:

• PRAM Auto-
Restore

Anti-Virus:

• Disinfectant

• SAMScan

SCSI:

• LoadADrive

• ScannerProbe

• SCSIProbe

General Utilities

These are worth
trying out, but
didn’t fit into the
story:

• ADBProbe

• Alias Dragon

• Apple System
Profiler

• Chiron

• Finder quitter

• Font Box

• InkJet Tools

• MacErrors

• SoftwareFPU

• The DiskTools
Collection

PowerBook

Utilities

Some special
items only for
PowerBooks:

• EMMpathy

• PowerBook
Insomnia

• ResetPwrMgr

these programs
on The Disc.

9

TO

lifts

Ihere upon the
mountaintop, after braving
treacherous footing, sheer
cliffs, high winds, and a dubious answering machine,
you have reached the Macintosh guru. As a supplicant
you kneel, make the proper offering of food (a Snickers
candy bar often works) and present the Enlightened
One with your Mac Conundrum. There is silence,
broken only by the sound of wind and the faint, high
cry of an osprey, while the guru considers your
problem. Then, the guru speaks.

Have you tried zapping the PRAM?

It doesn’t have to be this way. Liberate
yourself from dependence upon others and
follow the Seven-fold Path to Macintosh
Enlightenment. Along this path, you’ll probe the
mysteries of the Macintosh, giving yourself the tools
to face a corrupted hard drive without another hike
up the mountain.

The Seven-fold Path

to Macintosh Enlightenment

(or Absolutely, Positively, 100% Everythinq You Could Ever Need To Know To Keep Your Mac Runninb Trouble-free)

MacADDICT 29

7 paths

7 paths

Karma Follows No Timetable

1 Trouble can — and, according
to Murphy, will — strike when
you least expect it. Follow
the old Boy Scout motto: Be
prepared. Here are three simple things
you can do to make the
inevitable problem
less of a problem.

• Make frequent
backups. There’s
no substitute for
having a copy of
your precious data
in case there's an
unfortunate loss in
the family. Since it’s no
longer feasible to back up
a hard drive to floppy disks in these
days of multigigabyte drives (unless you
have several hundred floppies and a few

Tips For Backing Up

• Decide Which files to back up. Back up all of your
documents. And back up some preferences files,
because these contain information (like registration
numbers and settings) important to the applications
that use them. You might also want to back up software
that you’ve downloaded to avoid downloading it again.
You don’t need to back up applications for which you
have installation disks.

• Set a backup schedule. Your backup schedule is
dependent upon how much you use your Mac. If you
save a lot of new data on your hard drive everyday, you
should consider a backup every few days; if you don’t,
then do a backup every couple of weeks.

• Remember that the first backup is the worst. After the
first backup is done, you only need to copy those files
that have changed since your last session, which means
that the backups should be considerably shorter.

free days), making a backup will probably
require equipment that doesn’t come with
your Macintosh, namely: a tape backup, a
Zip drive, or a Syquest drive. We recom-
mend using a Zip drive, because it is
almost as fast as a hard drive, and at less
than $20 for each 100MB cartridge (the
drive itself sells for just over $200), the
cost can’t be beat. Don’t be talked into a
tape drive. Tape backups are slower than
death. Syquest drives are a better alterna-
tive to tape, but they can be expensive and
their cartridges tend to be unreliable.

Once you get a Zip drive, consider
some sort of backup utility software.
Backup utilities help you track what’s been
backed up and when it was done. There
are commercial products (such as Dantz
Retrospect or Leader Technologies' Power-
Merge) and shareware products that can
do the job (several are on The Disc).

• Have emergency software available.
When you do encounter a problem, there
is some comfort in having the right tools at
hand; not stuck on an inaccessible hard
drive. In order to fix an errant Mac, you
need to be able to start it up and have soft-
ware that can deal with the problem.

• Have a Disk Tools floppy available. All
Macs come with System software disks,
and included in the set is either a Disk
Tools floppy disk or a disk image of a
Disk Tools disk. If you don’t have a CD-
ROM drive, you’ll need to make a Disk
Tools disk. If you do have a CD-ROM
drive, make one anyway, because you
never know when you might not be able
to access your CD-ROM drive. In fact,
make two or three copies to guard against
the occasional bad floppy.

How to Rebuild the Desktop File

1 . Restart your Mac with Extensions off.

(Some extensions can cause corruption if
the Desktop is rebuilt while they are active.)

2. Hold down the Command and Option keys

until a dialog box comes up asking if you
want to rebuild the desktop.

3. Click "OK."

4. Wait for the Finder to rebuild the Desktop
file. (This could take several minutes, so
you can treat it like a commercial break —
go visit the refrigerator.)

Alternately, use TechTool, a free utility that

rebuilds the Desktop file for you without reboot-
ing your Mac. TechTool deletes
the Desktop database files
(rather than just modifying
them, as the Finder does) and
forces the Finder to restart.

When the Finder gets going, it sees that it has to
rebuild the Desktop, so it builds an entirely new
database. The authors of TechTool claim that
this is better because a regular Desktop rebuild
may only modify a damaged Desktop, whereas
TechTool gives you a fresh one every time.

TechTool Is indispensable for troubleshooting.

The Disk Tools floppy disk contains a
minimal system that allows your Mac to
start from that floppy disk, as well as Disk
First Aid and Drive Setup. These two pro-
grams can go a long way toward rehabili-
tating an ailing Mac.

• Make a Utilities disk. Put any other util-
ities on another floppy disk and keep it by
your Mac for those times when Disk First
Aid and Drive Setup aren’t enough.
Suggested utilities for your utilities disk are
included on The Disc. With the Disk Tools
floppy and utilities floppy available, you
can start up your Mac, repair a corrupted
directory or driver, and perform any other
tests or repairs that your utilities will allow.

• Perform periodic maintenance.
Although problems can strike at any time,
there are a couple of things you can do to
keep your Mac in good health.

• Periodically rebuild the Desktop file.
The Desktop file is an invisible database
file with information about which
documents and applications are on your
hard drive, how they should be viewed,
and which application to launch when a
document is double-clicked. Since it stores
information about all the files on your hard
drive (even after you throw them away),
the Desktop file can get huge, and because
the Finder reads from and writes to the
Desktop file frequently, there are many
opportunities for disk errors to cause
problems. The solution? Rebuild the
Desktop file every month or so, or more
often if you start seeing generic icons in
place of custom ones, or if you get appli-
cation-couldn’t-be-found type messages
when you know the application exists.

• Periodically defragment your hard
drive. Fragmentation, a normal part of
using a hard drive, doesn't usually cause
problems, but it can eventually slow down
your drive. While defragmenting a hard
drive isn’t a high priority, it should be done
every few months just to keep things at top
speed. Commercial software is available to
do defragmentation, usually as part of a
utilities package.

What To Put On
A Utilities Disk

Your utilities disk should include a
collection of software that will be useful
in the event of a crash. Here’s our list of
things (other than a commercial utilities
package) that we like to have around.
You’ll find all of these on The Disc:

• Disinfectant • MacErrors

• RAM check • SCSIProbe

• TechTool

The Hidden Structures

2

Your Macintosh peripherals
like structure. A lot of
structure. After all, they have
to keep track of millions of
bits of data, and they have to be able to
communicate with each other and the
mother ship itself, while making sure all
the data remains intact. It isn’t
easy, and mistakes happen.

(Yes, even computers make
mistakes — don’t you feel
better now?) There are things
that can be done to repair a
crumbling structure.

• Know and love Disk First Aid
Disk First Aid, a utilities
program that ships with every
copy of the Mac OS, will check
and repair the structures on a
hard drive (catalogs, direct-
ories, and the like) that are used to
organize the files that live there.

• Buy and learn to use a utilities pack-
age such as Norton Utilities. Although
Disk First Aid is good at what it does, it
doesn’t perform as many tests and repairs
as commercial utilities do. We highly rec-
ommend you buy a commercial utilities
package. In addition to a disk repair pro-
gram, most utilities packages come with
several other applications (such as

Disk First Aid

1 . Start up your Mac with the Disk
Tools floppy you put aside while
reading Part One. (You did put one
aside, didn’t you?)

2. Launch Disk First Aid and click on
the Repair button. Disk First Aid
notifies you of any problems that it
finds and attempts to repair them.

3. If you run Disk First Aid on your
Startup drive, you can only check
for problems with that drive by click-
ing the Verify button.

defragmentation and file recovery pro-
grams), so you get an added bonus.

• Be aware of device drivers.

Peripherals use little bits of software
(called drivers) that tell the device how
to interact with your Mac. If these dri-
vers become corrupted, strangeness can

Retrieving a File
You’ve Thrown Away

If you’ve trashed a file that you
really do need (and you own a file
recovery program), here’s what to do:

1 . Try not to use the hard drive at all.

Any activity on the hard drive
creates the risk of writing over the
file you want to recover.

2. Run your file recovery program.

3. Recover files to a disk other than
your hard drive (this is another
place where a Zip drive comes
in handy). Although there are no
guarantees, there is the possibility
that you can get your hard work
back from the abyss.

Disk First Aid, a program that comes free with your
Mac, is much more powerful than you might think.

result. Hard disk drivers can be especial-
ly problematic, because they live on the
hard drive itself (instead of in a ROM
chip or easily replaceable extension),
and are subject to corruption, possibly

resulting in the infamous flashing ques-
tion mark upon startup. .. _

But driver problems ]
aren’t only for hard-
drives and the
Highway Patrol, «

Corrupted device (;
drivers can also I ,
cause problems ’
for CD-ROMs,
scanners, or any
other peripheral. If
you’re having problems
with a specific peripheral, try
reinstalling its driver software.

• Bringing the dead to life. Files that
have been erased from your hard drive
are not necessarily gone for good. When
a file is thrown in the trash and the trash
is emptied, the Mac doesn’t go through
and destroy the file on the hard drive.

Instead, it marks the space that the file
occupies as “OK to write over” so that
when it needs to write something else to
the hard drive, it knows it can use that
space. A file recovery utility such as
Symantec’s UnErase (part of Norton
Utilities) may be able to get a file back
that has been thrown away.

How to Update Your
Hard Disk Driver*

1 . Start up with your Disk Tools disk.

2. Launch Drive setup and select your hard drive
in the window that appears.

3. Select Dpdate from the Fuctions menu.

Caution: Drive setup is also used to initialize a hard
drive, so take care when mousing near the Initialize
button, or you could end up with an empty drive.

*This only works for Apple hard drives. If you
own a third-party drive, read the owner’s manual
that came with it.

Recalling The Past

3 Memory is akin to work-
benches in a shop: The
more benches you have, the
more projects you work on
at one time. The inverse rule also
applies: The more benches you have, the
more clutter you can pile on them. Then
there’s the problem of too much bench
and not enough project (or more
commonly, too much project and not
enough bench). These all apply to
Macintosh memory management.

• Know how to set memory parti-
tions. In the Get Info box for every

application (just select the application
in the Finder and type Command-I or
select Get Info from the File menu to see
it) , there’s a place where you can set the
amount of memory an application uses.
Listed in that box is the suggested size
(which can’t be changed), a minimum
size (the absolute least amount of mem-
ory with which an application can run),
and a preferred size (the application
will take up to this amount of memory if
it’s available).

If your application runs slowly, try
increasing its memory allocation; howev-

er, if you’re running in a tight memory
situation, and you need all
the RAM you can scrape
together, try decreas-
ing the preferred
size. You can
decrease the mini-
mum size, but if
you go below a cer-
tain point, the appli-
cation may crash
because of insufficient
memory. If you’ve entered
the minimum size danger zone the

Mac ADDICT 31

7 paths

7 paths

1 Memory Mapper I

High Memory
_ Findor

□ free

B Miorosoft Word

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M*mM»pp*r

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System Heep
Lo-Mem Gtobals

Type Siyn Size Free

MEMORY MAPPER reveals how your Mac divides its RAM
among all the things that demand it.

[ About This Macintosh 1

Power Macintosh

System Software 7.5.3
Updated to Revision 2

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Total Memory :

40,960K Laryest Unused Block: 22,303K

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THE ABOUT THIS MACINTOSH box also displays how RAM
is divided. The Largest Unused Block item doesn’t
necessarily show how much RAM is available, however.

Finder will notify you when you try to
close the Get Info window.

• Understand the System heap and

fragmented memory. Selecting About This
Macintosh from the Apple menu while

DID YOU KNOW

that It would take over 700
high-density floppy disks to
hold as much information as
a 1GB hard drive? At 1/8”
width per floppy, a stack of
700 would stand nearly 90
feet tall; or, placed side-by-
side, they would stretch
nearly half a mile. Martha
Stewart could surface a small
patio with those.

in the Finder will call
up a profile of how
memory Is being used
on your Mac. Here
you’ll see how much
built-in memory your
Mac has, how much
total memory it has
(this can be different
from the built-in
memory if you're
using RAM Doubler or
Virtual Memory), and the Largest Block
Remaining. Notice that this doesn’t say

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Vou haue set the Minimum and Preferred
sizes below 5.928K, uihich may cause
"Microsoft Ulord” to crash.

Total Free Memory. If you’ve had a few
applications open at the same time and
you close one or two, and then start
another, you may be fragmenting your
memory, which is similar to fragmenting
a hard drive.

When multiple programs are running,
they each take up a block of RAM. When
you close one, it gives up its block, but
the programs that were opened after it
still hold on to the blocks that they have.
That means that if you start up your Mac,
launch three programs and then quit the
first, you can have your free memory split
between two places. To remedy this, sim-
ply quit all open programs. This returns
your free memory to one single block.

If you notice that the Largest Unused
Block reading plus the amount of
memory used by applications doesn’t
match the amount of memory you have
on your Mac, your System heap has been
fragmented. To remedy this you can
restart your Mac, or use FixHeap
(included on The Disc), a utility that will
defragment the System heap.

• Set your Disk Cache. The Disk Cache
(settings are in the Memory Control
Panel) is a block of RAM set aside to hold
often-referred-to instructions. The idea is
that if your Mac can find
what it needs in RAM rather
than on the hard drive, it
will perform faster. But
because the Disk Cache
increases the size of the
System heap (and slows
down some programs) it’s
not a good idea to crank it
as high as it will go.

Arguments about how big
the cache should be have
raged on for years. We offer
these bits of wisdom
(unless you’re using
Photoshop, in which case
you’ll want to set it at 32K):

Try playing around with dif-
ferent Cache settings. If you
notice a speed increase,
leave the Disk Cache set at

the point where you notice the differ-
ence. If you don’t notice an increase no
matter how high you set the cache, put it
at 32K so that you get as much RAM as
you can out of your system.

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Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word 6.0.1
Kind : application program
Size : 4.2 MB on disk (4,382,536 bytes
used)

Where : Abulafia : Applications : Word

Processors : Microsoft Word 6 :

Created : Mon, Apr 8, 1 996, 1 2 :28 PM
Modified : Wed, Jun 12, 1 996, 4 :30 PM
Version: 6.0.1 , Copyright © 1983-1995
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Minimum size :

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Note : Memory requirements will decrease by
3,91 8K if virtual memory is turned on in
the Memory control panel.

THE GET INFO COMMAND reveals a wealth
of information and memory control.

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Disk Cache
Always On

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Modern Memory Manager
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Select Hard Disk :

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RAM Disk Size [OK

Use Defaults ]

THE MUCH-DEBATED disk cache settings can be changed
in the Memory control panel, along with other memory-
related settings.

Are you sure you uiant to continue?

[ Cancel ] |_0K_J|

DANGER WILL ROBINSON! Setting your
application's memory size below its
minimum is a recipe for trouble.

A Quick-‘n-Dirty Trouble-shooting Guide

In general, certain symptoms man-
date specific solutions. To get rid of
general strangeness, we recommend
the following steps:

• Rebuild your Desktop.

It's not a cure-all, but it won’t hurt.

• Scan the hard drive with Disk First
Aid or Symantec’s Norton Utilities.

• Check your SCSI setup (it you’ve

recently fiddled with your SCSI setup).

• Check for Extension conflicts.

• Update disk drivers.

• Zap the PRAM.

• Do a Clean Install of your System.
(Since TechTool scans System files for
corruption, try using it first before doing
a Clean Install. This may save you
some trouble.)

Managing Conflict

4 All is not harmonious inside
your Mac. Extensions, Control
Panels, the System, and appli-
cations all struggle for the
same resources, and sometimes this strug-
gle turns into a fight. A little extension skir-
mish might cause some oddities (such as
menu bar conflicts or data corruption) in
your Mac, but a major battle may result in
a system freeze. If you think you’ve become
collateral damage in an extensions battle,
here’s what you should know:

• Know how to start up with
extensions Oit. Tlirning off all exten-
sions when starting up your
Macintosh can be a life saver. Hold
down the Shift key while starting up,
and your Mac will give you the mes-
sage “Extensions Off” below the
Welcome To Macintosh message
while loading the System software.

You may be surprised at how fast
your Mac is ready to go; all those
Extensions and Control Panels take
time to load and use memory.

If your Mac freezes while start-
ing up, this should get you — tem-

porarily — up and running, at least long
enough to find the offending extension.

* Know how to use the Extensions
Manager. Apple has thoughtfully provided
the Extensions Manager to help with
Extensions conflict. Through this Control
Panel/Extension duo, you can control
what loads at startup, making it easier to
track down any unruly Extensions.
Conflict Catcher from Casady & Greene
does everything the Extensions manager

APPLE’S EXTENSIONS MANAGER makes it easier
to track down unruly extensions.

EHtensions Manager

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Use this control panel to turn

PowerPeek

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off problematic extensions so

Conflict Extension 1 ”

you will be able to boot your

Disinfectant INIT

Macintosh correctly .

Run "Extension List"

Apple® Event Manager

Warning : Incorrect use of

Installer Cleanup

this control panel may cause

7200 Graphics Acceleration

problems with your Macintosh.

Apple CD-ROM

Apple Guide

AppleScript 1 ”

AppleShare

CFM Updater

Color Picker

ColorSync 1 ”

[ Undo ]

D2 CD Init

, .

Debugger IN IT

I Help )

Dragging Enabler

File Sharing Extension

Find File Extension

does, and more. It deals with Extensions
and Control Panels, and it
works with Chooser
Extensions, Apple j
Menu items, fonts,
and and it helps
diagnose Exten-
sion conflicts. We
recommend you
invest in a copy.

• Trace the prob-
lem to its root. To
bring your Mac back safely
from the Extension conflict front
lines, you need to hunt down the Extension
that’s causing the problem. If you added an
Extension or Control Panel just before the
trouble started, try turning that item off. If
that doesn’t solve the problem, turn all
your Extensions off, and then back on one
at a time, restarting each time, until the
problem shows up. The last Extension you
turned on is most likely the culprit. Either
remove it, or try it in combination with
other Extensions to find out who is fighting
whom. Conflict Catcher makes managing
Extensions and tracing conflicts easier.

Graceful Escapes

5 When bad things happen —
and they do, even to nice
Macs — there are ways to take
only a glancing blow instead
of a full-on punch to the solar plexus.

• Force Quit. A few useful key combina-
tions can get you out of
trouble. The most com-
mon is the Force Quit.

To quit a program
(including the Finder),
try pressing Command-
Option-Escape. Your
Mac will ask if you want to quit. Force
Quits are useful when a program has
frozen, or something has gone wrong
and you can’t quit.

• The Interrupt hey. On most older Macs,
there are two buttons located on the front

or side of the case: one with a triangle and
one with a circle. The triangle key is the
Reset key. Push it and the system chimes
and resets. The circle key, though, is the
key to strange and arcane powers. Push it
and the system drops you into the debug-

ger. (On newer Macs, push the Power key
on the keyboard and hold down the
Command key to produce the same effect.)
• MacsBug. MacsBug is a debugging Init.
It fives in the System Folder and when a
System Error happens, it puts up a screen

Q

Force “SimpleTeHt” to quit?
Unsaued changes will be lost.

(Force Quit)

COMMAND-OPTION-ESCAPE lets you force your Mac to quit.

full of numbers and letters. Don’t be intim-
idated. At the bottom of the screen is a

command fine. If you have a
System Error and you’ve
installed MacsBug, it
will pop up and you
can restart by typ-
ing rs or rb and
hitting return
(rather than having
to use the Reset
key). This saves a lit-
tle wear and tear on
your Mac, because the
Restart command allows it to pre-
pare for the restart. For a fist of cool things
to do with MacsBug: go to

http://www.biddeford.com/~benyc/Macsb
ug.html.

When the Reset Key Doesn’t Work

• Type 8M 0 A9F4: Hit the return key. This makes your computer do

To the average user, the debugger isn’t useful. But if you’re running
a program that freezes and won’t respond to the Force Quit key com-
bination, try this. (Press the key with the circle to get to the debugger-
you’ll see a dialog box wrth a > prompt.) Here’s what to do next:

• Push the Programmer's key. (In older Macs, it’s the small key with
the triangle symbol on top. On newer Macs, it’s the Command Power
key, which also has a triangle on it.) You’ll be presented with a white
box that has a greater-than (>) sign on the left. This is the prompt.
(If the white box doesn't appear, you may as well reset your Mac-
h's too far gone to benefit from anything else we can do here.)

a hex dump (a partial dump of what's in memory) of the local seg-
ment. The window will fill with a bunch of numbers and letters.

• Type G 0 (zero): Hit the Return key.

If all goes well, you should be back in the Finder. Any unsaved
work that was in the frozen program is now gone, but you should be
able to save work in any other open program. Restart your Mac as
soon as possible after doing this, because it probably isn’t stable.

Alternately, you can try a straight shot to the Finder by typing
GO FINDER after the > prompt then hitting return. You may or may
not be put back in the Finder after this.

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7 paths

Exposing Corruption

6 Disk structures aren’t the only
thing that can become corrupt-
ed. Your Mac’s Parameter RAM
(PRAM) and Preferences files
can also succumb to the dark side.

IF THINGS STILL
DON'T WORK,

try reading the System
7.5.3 license agreement
backward while
burning a DOS disk.

Zap the PRAM. The

PRAM is a little bit of
RAM that stores
information about
your Mac (such as
mouse settings
and which printer
is selected). That
information, which
doesn’t get erased
when you shut down,
can get corrupted. You can
purge (or zap) your PRAM
with just a few steps.

• Clean out the
Preferences files.
Sometimes a Preference file
can become corrupted,

causing strange behavior in the applica-
tion that created it. If you notice an
application or Control Panel acting
strangely, try throwing away its Preference
file. This may clear up the problem. Be
careful about just willy-nilly throwing out
Preference files. They contain settings for
the program to which they belong, and
some of them contain serial numbers. If
you’re using a program such as Word or
Photoshop, you may have hours of tweak-
ing stored in that preference file. If you
don’t want to lose these settings and
you’ve been backing up your Preferences
files, try replacing the suspect file with an
earlier version from your backup disks.

• Know how to do a Clean Install, a clean
Install puts a brand spankin’ new System
Folder on your hard drive and renames
your old one Previous System Folder. You
should care because resources in your
System (or Finder, or other bits of System
software) can become corrupted, and a

How To Do A Clean Install

1 . Start up yOUP Mac from your System
install disk.

2. When the main installer screen appears,
type: Command-Shift-K.

3. The installer Will ask if you want to install a
new System Folder. Hit OK. Your old System
Folder will be renamed Previous System Folder.

4. After the installation is finished, quit the
installer, then throw away the System and

Finder in your Previous System. Make sure
they’re gone. (Two Systems or Finders on the
Startup Disk can confuse your Mac resulting
in more problems.)

Other important stuff is stored in your
System Folder, so keep the previous one
around while you set up your new one. Once
you're sure you don’t need anything in the
Previous System Folder, throw it away.

normal install of your System doesn’t
necessarily replace damaged files. It looks
to see if System files are outdated before
replacing them.

If you’re experiencing problems, you
might try performing a Clean Install. For
some reason, Apple chose to hide the
Clean Install option.

• Practice safe computing. Computer
viruses are not the scourge that they are in
the PC world, but they do exist. If your
hard drive has been slowing down (and
doesn’t need to be defragmented) or your
Mac is exhibiting strange behavior that
can’t be explained by other things, you
may have a virus.

There are several good anti-virus pro-
grams. We’ve included some on The Disc.

How To Zap Your PRAM

• Hold down the Command-Option-P-R
keys while your Mac restarts.

Your Macintosh will stumble a little,
then restart. Zapping the PRAM resets
some Control Panels (like Monitors and
AppleTalk), so you’ll have to adjust a
few settings after zapping.

Alternately, use TechTool to zap the
PRAM. TechTool also allows you to
save the PRAM settings, and it claims
to reset the PRAM more deeply than a
mere set of key combinations.

Appealing To a Higher Mechanical Power

7 Sometimes, your Mac can
encounter evils not related to
software. While hardware-
related problems are compar-
atively rare, they do pop up now and then,
and those problems can be
truly strange.

> Identity crisis.
SCSI devices all
require an ID
number from 0 to
7. If two SCSI
devices have the
same ID number,
bad things can hap-
pen, from devices not
responding to hard drives
eating each other’s directo-
ries — it’s not pretty. Before hooking up a
new SCSI device, find out what SCSI IDs are
already in use (you can use SCSI Probe, a
utility included on The Disc). Apple usual-
ly sets the Mac’s internal hard drive to SCSI
ID 0 and the CD-ROM drive to SCSI ID 3.

• Learn tn terminate. SCSI termination is
more black art than science. Ideally,
termination tells the computer where the
SCSI chain ends and where it begins,
because there is a terminating resistor on
each end. Since internal hard drives are
terminated (marking one end of the
chain), one would think that a terminating
resistor at the other end of the chain would
mark the end. This isn’t always so. If you're
experiencing problems with your periph-
erals (or your Mac shows the flashing
question mark right after you install a new
scanner), SCSI termination may be your
problem. Experiment. Try changing the
termination of the end device. If that
doesn’t work, try changing the termination
of devices in the middle. If that fails,
rearrange the order of the devices. If
things still don’t work, try reading the
System 7.5.3 license agreement backwards
while burning a DOS disk.

• me Chimes Of Doom. Once in a great
while, something new happens when you

start your Mac. Instead of a cheerful Happy
Mac, you get a black screen with a Sad
Mac. The “Chimes of Doom” dirge plays in
the background. This is bad. Very bad. It
may not be the end of your Mac, however.

him off your Mac for ten mintues to
reset it, then try starting up with the
System disk you have put aside. If your
Mac starts up from this disk, you proba-
bly have a problem with your hard drive
or your System, and your Mac may not
have to go into the repair shop. Try some
of the techniques you've read about here
to see if you can get things going again.
I've seen the Sad Mac twice, and both
times my Mac has survived.

You are now firmly on the path to
Mac Enlightenment, knowing what only a
few Mac users know. Apply your new
wisdom well.D

David Reynolds recently opened his Centris
650 and pulled out the hard drive cable so
his Mac would recognize the CD-ROM.

Where To Get A Little Help

W hen you finally decide to drop the ego act and call for help,
have the following information ready:

• Model of Apple product
• Version of the Mac OS you’re using
• A list of applications, control panels, and extensions you are
using when the problem occurs
• A detailed description of how to recreate the problem (if
you know).

The more you know, the faster you’ll be able to get help. Here
are some places to start:

Apple Assistance Center

Contact: 800-SOS-APPL (767-2775)

PPOS: These people know the Macintosh.

Cons: You may spend the rest of your life on hold.

What you Should know: Call 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Central time during
the middle of the week for best results. Although assistance for
Macintosh owners is only available 8 a.m to 8 p.m., Performa
owners can get help here 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Apple has given all Mac clone makers the information they need
to offer the same level of technical support that Apple offers, so if
you own a clone, call your clone manufacturer’s help line.

Apple Fax

Contact: 800-505-0171

Pros: Chock-full-of-data documents come to your fax machine
faster than you can say “S.O.S. Apple."

Cons: You can’t ask questions of anyone but the voice mail system.
What you Should know: Since there are nearly 1 ,000 documents
available, request that a catalog of what’s available be faxed to
you and then request the specific document you need.

Apple's Support and Information Web

Contact: http://www.support.apple.com
Pros: Tons of information available
at all times.

Cons: Requires an Internet connec-
tion. No way to e-mail questions.

What you should know: The

Technical Information Library (the
same resource that Apple technical
support uses) is available here. The
information, however, is highly tech-
nical and doesn’t follow a “here’s a
question, here’s an answer” format,
making it somewhat of a puzzle to
find answers.

Tfech Info Library

the TIL by choosing keywords) from the two lists below and/or entering a
search string in the text entry box below.

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experience with us and tell us w hat you would like to see added to the Tech Info
Library . Our e-mail address is til@austin.apple.com. We will be unable to
respond to these messages, due to volume.

Users groups

Contact: 800-538-9696 x500 for a
group near you
Pros: There’s nothing like a
group of MacAddicts to help
solve a problem.

Cons: Finding and joining a user
group takes time, so immediate
assistance may not be available.
What you should know: Although

Interested in Cyberdog
or QuickTime?

Visit our new Discussion
Forum and Feedback areas.
Join others by posting
questions and answers to our
public forums and provide
feedback directly to Apple.

APPLE’S WEB SITE contains a Tech Info Library that you can search.
Unfortunately, the articles are often much too technical— oriented
toward tech support specialists rather than ordinary folks.

Consultants

Contact: 800-290-2776 for a list of consultants (by expertise)

PPOS: One-on-one help from a Mac expert? Sign me up!

Cons: $30 to $100 an hour? Never mind.

What you Should know: Check references when hiring a
consultant. If the cost of a professional is too high, consider hir-
ing a student or consulting your local user group for someone

willing to work for a little
less money. If you bought
your Mac from a dealer, call
that dealer to see if they
offer consulting services or
references.

Apple Support and
Information Web

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Apple Is recommending that only customers with specific sy stem software
and Macintosh computers update their systems with Sy stem 7.5.3
Revision^. Visit the System 7.5.3 Update.Rmision 2’ Home Page for
complete details and dow nload information.

Apple Repair Extension Program

Look here to find information on the Apple Repair Extension Program.

Apple Tech Info Library

Access a subset of the same Technical Information Library (TIL) Apple
engineers and technicians woridw idc use to troubleshoot and solve your
technical questions. With access to over 12,000 articles updated daily ,
this page includes a search engine to get the information you need last as
w ell as a brow scable version of the TIL.

Online forums

Contact: go macpla.net

or GO ALSUP
(CompuServe)

Keyword: applecomputer
(America Online)

Various comp. sys. mac
newsgroups (Usenet)
Pros: 24-hour access to
Macintosh users and
information.

COOS: Responses come
from other Mac owners,
not Apple.

What you should know
Post messages in

NEED SOME TECHNICAL INFO on an Apple product? Need to find a
System software patch? Check out http://www.apple.com.

CompuServe to “all” or “all and sysop" to increase the chances
you may not get help on an immediate problem, user group of getting a reply. Both the CompuServe and AOL areas have

contacts can be invaluable in cases of future worries. the Apple Technical Information Library.

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diet plan

System Diet Plan

Is your System tipping the scales at 60MB? 90MB? MORE?

Then follow our diet plan to trim it down to a healthy size.

W by Steven Anzovin
hen you first got it, your Mac was slim, trim,
responsive — the quickest, little-bitty box around.
Over the years, things have changed, and not for
the better. Now your Mac seems depressed, sluggish,
exhausted; it can barely get out of bed at startup time. Your hard
disk seems to be shrinking, too — no surprise, with your System
Folder tipping the scales at a portly 60MB, 80MB, or even more.

J ust as excess flab is no good for you,
it’s no good for your Mac’s System Folder.
Over the years, you've upgraded the System
numerous times, installed applications,
trashed applications, and added who-knows-
how-many-extensions, control panels, fonts,
preference files, translators and mystery
files you didn’t even know you had. No wonder
your Mac feels like it’s had one too many
matzo balls. All those extra items crowding
your System folder are also likely to cause
compatibility problems, error messages, and
system crashes. The extraneous files consume
hard disk space, slow your Mac’s startup
time to a crawl, and nibble away at your
precious RAM.

Don’t worry. All that’s needed to get your
System back in shape is a good diet plan, and
we’ve got one: MacAddict’s proven 12-Step
System Diet Plan.

Before you embark on the road to a slim,
trim System, close your eyes and recite this
mantra: “Back up. Back up. Back up.” Copy
your entire System Folder and put it
somewhere safe — you never know when you’ll
want some of it again.

Upgrade wisely.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
fat — remember this when its time to upgrade
your System software. Don’t put everything on
the System software disc into your System
Folder. The upgrade, designed to meet the
needs of many different kinds of Mac owners,
contains hundreds of files you simply don’t
need — the equivalent of excess calories for
your System.

Take the 32.4MB CD Extras folder — please!
(Ba dum bum!) The folder contains some inter-
esting software, such as Desktop Pattern
Clippings, but it’s nothing most Mac owners
really need for performing day-to-day work.
Even if you do need some of the Extras, use

APPLE’S SYSTEM INSTALLER lets you pick which
features to install on your Mac.

common sense: for example, don’t install the
1 ,7MB of PC Card modem files if you don’t own
a PowerBook.

Apple has made it easy for you to pick and
choose what you want to install. The new
System software has the most flexible installer
to date. Choose the Custom Install option and
install only the software you really need. There’s
even an Uninstall option if you overindulge.
Weight lost: 32.4MB (already!)

Step ©
Clean up your Apple
Menu Items folder.

This one’s easy. If there’s something in the
Apple Menu Items folder that you’ve never
actually used, then trash it. Sure, the graphing
calculator (500K) gives a great demo, but when
was the last time you needed to know the area of
a hyperbola? The same goes for the Puzzle

IF THERE'S SOMETHING in your Apple Menu Items
folder that you don’t use, just toss it.

(65K) and maybe the Scrapbook (54K), too.
Then there are all the aliases (at least 2K each)
for applications you no longer own or have
upgraded. There’s absolutely no way you can
delete something from this folder that will cause
your System not to start up in the morning.

Here’s a control panel tip that will trim a
little extra fat from your Apple Menu: Go to the
Apple Menu Options control panel. Under
Remember Recently Used Items, set a low
number for the number of items retained in the
Recent Applications, Recent Documents, and
Recent Servers folders. If you never use it, torn
off this option altogether. You’ll lose 5K per
item, or 115K at the default settings of 10
documents, 10 applications and three
servers — plus, by relieving your System of the
need to keep track of these things, you’ll also
realize a small gain in performance.

Weight lost: 734K

Deal with

CONTROL PANELS.

Most control panels (cdevs) are useful for your
System’s smooth running, but there may be a
few surprises hidden away here. For example,
many external hardware devices install extra
cdevs, and they can be surprisingly large.
Iomega’s Zip Drive comes with two CDevs —
Personal Backup and VirtualDisk Starter — that
total 1.2MB, but neither is absolutely necessary
to operate the drive.

Apple’s standard Control Panel suite
includes a few CDevs that you probably don’t
need. Eminently deletable if you don't have a
PowerBook or an EtherNet network: Token Ring
(33K), Brightness (16K), and PowerBook
Trackpad (1 16K). You don’t need both the
Monitors and Monitors and Sound CDevs; delete
Monitors to trim 56K. But don’t throw out every-
thing. Instead of ditching the EnergySaver panel
(33K), why don’t you use it instead and save
yourself a few dollars on your power bill?
Weight lost. 221 K

Step ££

Straighten out your
Extensions folder.

An orderly collection of extensions is essential
for your Mac’s health, but achieving order
isn’t easy. First, your Extensions folder most
likely has a huge list of files inside it — 300 or
more isn’t unusual. Second, many of the items
have wonderfully cryptic names such as
“OpenTptAppleTalkLib” or “Open TptAppleTalk
Library”. (Did you catch the subtle difference in
the names?) Third, Apple gives you little or no
information on which files you really need.

The effort it takes to clean up your Extensions

THE MESSIEST, MOST PROBLEMATIC FOLDER on
your Mac Is probably the Extensions folder.

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diet plan

folder is worthwhile.

Cutting back on exten-
sions is the best way to
speed up your Mac’s start-
up time, and it also
reduces the possibility of
nasty extension conflicts
and System bombs.

Start with the easy
tasks first. Not hooked to
an Ethernet Network?

Delete Ethertalk Phase 2 (18K). If your Mac
isn’t connected to a network, you may be able
to nuke all of the Open Transport files —
including Open Transport AppleTalk Library,
Open Transport Internet Library and Open
Transport Library — to lose 1.6MB. (But don’t
delete any of these files if you use internet soft-
ware that depends on Open Transport.)

Check out what’s in the Printer Descriptions
folder. You'll find 29 files for printers, most of

Cleaning Up The

which you don’t own
and never will. (How
many of us can afford to
buy a LaserWriter Color
12/600 PS, anyway?)
Toss them and lose
700K. Elsewhere in the
Extensions folder, you’ll
find Color SW files,
totaling 2.1MB, for the
Color StyleWriter series.
Throw out any that don’t apply to you.

Then there’s speech. PlainTalk is a great tech-
nology, but how many programs use it? The full
install of English speech recognition and text-to-
speech software eats 6.4MB, most of it residing in
the Extensions folder. Save the space.

Be cautious, though. If there’s a file you can’t
identify, or you’re not sure if you need it, leave it
alone. As for extension conflicts, get professional
help. We recommend Conflict Catcher, from
Casady & Greene (408-484-9228), the best
commercial extensions manager.

Weight lost: 1 0.8MB

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for printers you don’t have. Dump ’em.

Microsoft Mess

If you’ve bought and installed the
whole Microsoft Office enchilada, then
you’ve lost 62MB of hard drive space
to Microsoft. And chances are that
you don’t even come close to using all
of the items that Office gives you.

There are templates for everything,
word processing tools, the equation
editor, clip art, help files, and— argh! —
Wizards (we’ve found that using
Wizards is much harder than just navi-
gating through Microsoft’s less-than-
intuitive menus).

But here’s the catch: it isn’t safe to
just go willy-nilly deleting items from
the Microsoft Office folders and the
System Folder. We’ve tried that. Usually
you’ll get some bizarre series of dialog
boxes on startup that you must click
through in order to reach the Finder.
This won’t destroy anything, but it’s
annoying as heck.

Fortunately, buried within you
Microsoft Office folder is an application
called Microsoft Office Setup. It doesn’t
actually help you set up anything, but it
does allow you to install or uninstall
parts of Office, or even the whole thing.
Microsoft Office Setup makes it easy to
do a minimum Office instal-lation.and
then go back later should you decide to
install more templates or a help system.

Step

Break the font habit.

Is collecting fonts your secret jones? It’s a
common enough habit among MacAddicts, but
it’s one you’ll have to break — or at least get
under control. All those enticing typefaces slow
program launching, bloat the Font menu for
every application, consume RAM and disk space,
and lead to difficult-to-solve font conflicts.

First, delete fonts that are no longer useful,
including fonts from by gone applications. If you
were one of the 150,000 or so who subscribed
to Apple’s late, lamented eWorld online service,
you’ve got eWorld fonts. Trash ’em to lose 28K.
Other potential trashables: HyperCard fonts
(68K), TaxType fonts from old versions of
MacinTax (300K), and fonts from old Voyager
CD-ROMs (maybe 100K each). At the same
time, look for duplicate fonts and delete the
older copies. Remember, you'll want to delete
not only the font suitcases in your Fonts folder,
but also any related printer fonts.

Next, weed out fonts that are out of fashion.
I You’re likely to find some, like the grunge fonts
I that were in vogue a year or two ago, that no
I one would think of using now.

Finally, reorganize your fonts. Install only
I your everyday fonts in your System Folder, and
I organize others into categories in their own
I folders outside the System Folder. Swap sets in
I and out as necessary. Font management pro-
I grams like Suitcase (Symantec, 503-334-

6054) , Adobe Type Manager, Adobe Type Reunion
(Adobe, 415-961-4400), or Masterjuggler
(Alsoft, 713-353-4090) make the task of manag-
ing your fonts a lot easier.

Weight lost: 1MB

Step

Throw away

COLOR MANAGEMENT FILES.

Color calibration and color management is a
tricky business for desktop publishers and
illustrators, and it requires multiple megabytes of
support software. If you aren’t doing any high-end
color printing and you don’t own a color scanner
or printer, you can trim any number of files. From
the Extensions folder, delete Apple’s ColorSync
(4 IK), ColorSync Profiles (50K), and ColorSync
System Profile (I4K). If you find them, also trash:
the CMSCP folder (680K); all Kodak Precision
files in your Extensions folder (528K); the
EfiColor DB folder (1MB); the EfiColor Processor
(288K); and the KPCMS folder (Kodak’s color
management system), for a loss of 387K. There’s
a ColorSync control panel (33K). If you use some
of these, then at least destroy profiles of scanners
and printers you’ll never use.

Weight lost: 2.9MB

UNLESS YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL publisher, you
don't really need these color management tools.

Step

Ditch folders and

FILES FROM LONG-GONE
APPLICATIONS.

Many applications add folders to the System
Folder when you install them. Often, these

folders contain help files, translators, dictio-
naries and other miscellaneous items. When
you run across a folder with the name of a
long-unused application, toss it. You’ll find
that this happens most frequently with games
and CD-ROM titles since those are the applica-
tions most likely to be used for a while and
then discarded.

Another good place to cull useless files is in
the Preferences folder. Every program you ever
popped into your Mac for five minutes has
stashed a preference file, and some of those
files can be up to 1MB in size. (Graphics appli-
cations are some of the worst offenders.)
Weight lost: 1MB

Clean up folders for

INSTALLED APPLICATIONS.

Even if you are still using an application, you can
delete some of the items found in its folder. For
example, if you use ClarisWorks, the Claris fold-
er in your System Folder boasts a veritable mob
of translators. Don’t know the difference
between AppleWorks (28K) , AppleWorks DB/SS
(16K) and AppleWorks GS (8K)? Don’t care?
Dump ‘em and trim 500K. Should that rare day
come when you need one of these files back,
simply reinstall it from your master disks. (You
do have back up disks for all of your applica-
tions, don't you? If not, please repeat the “Back
up” mantra ten times.)

Weight lost: 500K

st ep

Reduce Read Me files.

Those SimpleText read-me, help, and info files
that come with every piece of Mac software on
the planet may weigh in at only 5K or so, but a
few K here and a few K there soon add up to real
flab. Chances are you’ll never read them, so why
store them? Use Apple’s Find File search engine
to locate and eliminate.

Apple Guide is the new evolution of Balloon
Help, and it’s a much better online help system:
context-sensitive, example driven, and multi-
media friendly. But if you prefer to tame your
Mac without anybody’s help — including
Apple’s — why should your System be burdened
with Guide files? Read, then ditch these from
the Extensions Folder: Networking Guide

Additions (36K); SimpleText Guide (356K) —
who needs a guide to SimpleText, anyway? —
Sound/Monitors Guide Additions (266K),
Speech Guide Additions (554K), and Open
Transport Guide Additions (212K).

Weight lost. 1 .6MB

YOU'LL BE AMAZED how many Read Me files and
copies of SimpleText you have tucked away.

Stop the spread of

SimpleText.

and printing technology. The full install gobbles a
whopping 7.9MB. Spare your System until more
third parties support it or until the release of Mac
OS 8, which will include GX built-in. Finally,
there’s QuickTime. Everybody needs this, but if
you’re running an ‘040 Mac, you don’t need
QuickTime PowerPlug, which is only for Power
Macs: Delete it to lose 635K.

Weight lost: 17.3MB

Keep your System fit.

With a little willpower and our 12-step plan, you’ve
shed a whopping 68.6MB. Now that your System’s
in shape, keep it that way. Don’t fall back into old
habits of piling on the fonts and extensions. When
you install a new application, do the minimum
install and see if it works for you. Inspect any new
folders that suddenly appear in your System
folder — find out what’s in there and if you really
need it. Trim the excess on a regular basis.
Maintainence fitness is better than binge dieting.
Total weight lost: 68. 6MBQ

Steven Anzovin, East Coast Editor of the biweekly Computer
Entertainment News, is also on the staff of Art in America
magazine. He is the author of 22 books. He bought his first

Fat cells seem to multiply all by themselves, and
so do copies of Apple's basic text reader,
SimpleText (54K), and its predecessor,
TeachText. You’D probably be shocked to find out
just how many SimpleTexts are clogging the arter-
ies of your hard drive: it seems Dke every applica-
tion hides its own copy somewhere. And that
problem isn’t just for users: Apple suffers from it,
too. The System 7.5.3 Update 2 CD alone contains
seven copies of SimpleText. If you think this is tak-
ing redundancy a little too far, stash one copy of
SimpleText snugly in the System Folder, then root
out all the rest (including any copies of
TeachText) using Find File.

Weight lost: 1 62K

Minimize multimedia.

Sure your Mac is the coolest multimedia 1
machine around, but do you need everything 1
Apple offers? QuickDraw 3D is a good example. I
If you don’t do 3D graphics or play 3D games, 1
don’t install it and lose 3.7MB, plus another 1
5MB in 3D extras. Do the same with I
QuickDraw GX, Apple’s advanced font display 1

Mac to get HyperCard and nine years later still uses it
(HyperCard) every day.

Cleaning Up The

Browser Mess

If you spend a lot of time on the Web,
your browser has probably put several
megabytes of cache files in your
Preferences folder. For example,
Netscape creates a folder in your
Preferences folder and stores a cached
version of items from each visited Web
page. If you spend much time online,
hundreds of these files can collect
here, and some of them can become
corrupted. Here's what to do:

• Set your browser to only cache a
small amount of data, or turn off
caching altogether.

•Alternately (if you have a little RAM
to spare), create a RAM disk, and use
that for your browser's cache.

•Use a utility, called Trash Bag,
which moves files from a Trash Bag
folder into the Trash. Set your browser
to put cache files into the Trash Bag
and they'll be emptied into the Trash
the next time you start up your Mac.

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FIND THE
SHAREWARE
mentioned
on The Disc.

T he Mac is not perfect. Things can go wrong. And things will go wrong. In your quest to solve problems
you’ll find that zapping the Mac’s parameter RAM (PRAM) and rebuilding the Desktop are often
touted as miracle cures. Got a problem? Zap the PRAM. Got a bigger problem? Zap the PRAM a few times.
The trouble is, while this is an effective remedy for some problems, it won’t work for them all. Here’s our
list of the top things that can go wrong with your Mac and what to do to fix them. And, yes, some of these
solutions involve zapping the PRAM and rebuilding the Desktop.

Symptom 1

When you try to eject a CD, a dia-
log box tells you that you can’t
because the CD is being shared.

Problem: Your Mac thinks that someone
might want to use the CD over the network
(even if you haven't given anyone else
access), so it won’t let it go.

Solution: Open the Sharing Setup control
panel, and then click Stop in the File
Sharing section.

Symptom 2

forget all about the disk, just as dragging
its icon to the Trash would.

Symptom 3

Where did all my RAM go? It
looks like the System is eating it.

Problem: If you’re using a pre-Power
Mac machine, then you’ve turned off
32-bit addressing ( zapping the PRAM can
cause this). The Mac’s blinders allow it to
only “see” the first 8MB of RAM.
Solution: Open the Memory control
panel, turn on 32-bit addressing, and
restart.

Symptom 4

Text files exchanged with DOS-
based PCs look funny.

The Mac ejects a floppy disk or
removable cartridge but then asks
for it back.

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Problem: You used the Eject Disk
(Command-E) to eject the disk.

Solution: Use Put Away (Command-Y) on
the File menu instead. Eject Disk keeps the
disk available on the desktop just in case
you want to copy files from one floppy disk
to another, even though you only have one
floppy drive. Put Away makes the Mac

Problem: A RAM card has come loose.
Solution: Open up your Mac (using
proper tools and precautions, especially
anti-static measures) and take out — and
put back — the SIMMs or RAM cards. If
you have two identical SIMMs, try swap-
ping slots. While you’re in there, check the
Mac’s logic board for chips that are askew.

Problem: A RAM chip may have failed.
Solution: Buy a replacement.

Problem: PCs use different standards
than Macs do for special characters and
line breaks.

Solution: Use a word processor with a
filter that lets you Export or save files in a
PC format.

Solution: Use Add/Strip, a shareware
program that helps you clean up text files
for exchange between a Mac and a PC.
Solution: Install the Macintosh Easy
Open control panel (part of System 7.5). If

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you then double-click on a DOS,
Windows, or OS/2 document, Macintosh
Easy Open will find all applications that
can open the document. Choose an
application and Macintosh Easy Open will
translate and open the document for you.
You may need additional translators, such
as those from DataViz.

Symptom 5

Custom icons are disappearing
or applications won’t launch
when a file belonging to them is
double-clicked.

Problem: Your Desktop file is corrupted.
Solution: Rebuild the Desktop.

Symptom 6

Your Mac won’t boot from a
drive: It says it needs a newer
System, but you’re using the
newest one there is.

Problem: A System Enabler file that tells
the System how to cope with the Mac’s
personality has been misplaced.
Solution: Reinstall the System software.

Symptom 1

Why can’t I share my Zip cartridge or
CD-ROM disc?

Problem: The Finder is reluctant to

share removable volumes, because it
never knows when you’re going to take
them away, beyond its reach.

Solution: Open the Sharing Setup
control panel and disable — then
re-enable — File Sharing while the volume
is on the Desktop. This will fool your Mac
into thinking the volume is available all
the time. Warning: You won’t be able to
unmount the volume until you Shut Down
or turn off file sharing.

Symptom 8

My Mac won’t let go of a floppy
disk or a removable cartridge.

Problem: A program on that disk may be
open, or a document on that disk (even
an invisible temporary file used by some
program) is in use. You may get a
message saying that some files are in use.
Solution: Quit all open applications and
then retry.

Solution: Restart. Hold down the mouse
button while restarting to eject all disks.

Symptom 9

The Finder won’t open a
document. It says there’s no
application available for it.

Problem: Each document has a code
associating it with the program that creat-
ed it. When you try to open the document,
the Finder calls upon that application to

do it. If the Finder can’t find the
application, it looks for any application
that can handle the type of data in the
document. If it can’t find any, it gives up.
Solution: Perform a Get Info on the
document, see if you recognize the icon
and whether you know what application to
find manually.

Solution: Rebuild the Desktop file.
Solution: Open an application that can
read (or translate) the type of document
you have, and then from within the
program choose Open and select the doc-
ument. In some programs (like Microsoft
Word), if you hold down the Option key
while choosing Open, the program will
show all documents and try to open them,
so you can at least get something out of the
file. (Although you’ll probably get a lot of
garbage text and lose all formatting.)
SulUtion: Make sure the Macintosh Easy
Open control panel is turned on. It tries to
make a match, using translation
components to extend the range of files
each application can open.

Solution: If you know which application
was used to create the document, try
dragging and dropping the file on top of it.

Symptom 10

Your Mac is booting from a

different disk than it usually does.

Problem: Your Mac doesn’t know which
disk it should use as the startup drive.
Solution: Make sure you don’t have some

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odd disc in the CD-ROM drive.

Solution: Select the Startup Disk Control
Panel and click on the disk from which you
want to start. Restart your Mac.

Solution: Zap the Parameter RAM.

Symptom 11

A floppy disk or CD-ROM is stuck in
the drive.

Problem: The floppy or CD is damaged, the
drive is out of alignment or the floppy gods are
out to lunch.

Solution: Unfold a paper clip and poke it
into the little hole next to or underneath the
floppy drive. This will manually eject the disk.
Warning: Only use this technique in an
emergency. If the disk's shutter is bent, this
technique can damage your disk drive.
Solution: Pop open the lid of your Mac and
take a peek inside to make sure the floppy
drive's cable is snugly seated at both ends.

Symptom 12

You can’t rename your hard drive.

Problem: Your Mac is set to share informa-
tion on the disk with other Macs on a network
(in other words, File Sharing is on) . Your Mac
won’t let you change the disk’s name because,
if it did, the other Macs wouldn't rec-
ognize it.

Solution: Turn off File Sharing.
Open the Sharing Setup control panel

and click Stop in the File Sharing area.
Problem: The disk is locked.

Solution: Select the disk, select Get Info
(Command-I) from the File menu, and
unmark the Locked box.

Symptom 13

My hard drive is full.

Problem: It could be that you’ve simply put
too much stuff on your hard drive. However, it
could also be that your Mac is not storing your
files efficiendy. For example, if you have lots of
small files (less than 8K) on a big hard drive
(more than 200MB), then chances are you
can save some hard drive space simply by
changing the way your Mac stores these files.
Solution: Back up Then use disk formatting
software such as Apple HD SC Setup to
partition the drive into a series of smaller
volumes, which will effectively increase the
number of small files your drive can hold.
Solution: Compress small files together into
a single file. You'll save much more space than
you'd expect.

Symptom 14

The colors on my screen look funny.

Problem: The screen depth setting has been
reduced, so the Mac has to approximate
additional colors.

Solution: Open the Monitors or Monitors &
Sound control panel from the Apple menu and
select a higher number of colors (thousands is
ideal; millions makes some Macs run slowly).

Problem: A speaker is next to the monitor. Its
powerful magnet is distorting the image.
Solution: Move it — the speaker, that is.

Problem: The wires in the back of your Mac
are coiled, creating the same magnetic effect
as the speakers do.

Solution: Uncoil the wires.

Symptom 15

Your hard drive or external cartridge
won’t show up in the Finder.

Problem: The Finder isn’t finding.

Solution: Try restarting your Mac.
Solution: Use the freeware program,
SCSIProbe, to scan the SCSI bus for problems
and to attempt to mount drives and cartridges.
Solution: Check that all of your SCSI and
power cables are securely plugged in and the
drive is turned on before you start your Mac.
Solution: scsi is sensitive. Make sure that
your SCSI chain is properly terminated, that no

two devices have the same ID number, that the
cables are securely connected, that the chain
doesn’t include powered-off devices, and that
it isn’t too long. (Added together, SCSI cables
should be no more than 22 feet in length.)

Symptom 16

My cursor is jumpy. It doesn’t follow
the mouse or trackball as I move it.

Problem: The rollers inside the mouse or
trackball have collected grease or crumbs.

Solution: Clean the rollers. Tim off the Mac,
unplug the mouse, and untwist the bottom
plate on the mouse (watch out — the mouse

ball will fall out and roll away). Dip a cotton
swab in cassette tape-head cleaning solution
(or rubbing alcohol) and rub it on the three
rollers you see inside the mouseball house.
Clean the ball, as well. Think of a trackball as
an upside-down mouse and do the above.

Problem: The rolling surface may be too
slippery.

Solution: Get a mouse pad. If you bought
your Mac from Apple, but haven't registered it
yet, do so — you’ll get a free mouse pad.
Solution: Change desks.

Problem: The mouse may not be plugged in
all the way.

Solution: Make sure the mouse is plugged in
securely. Turn off your Mac and then try plug-
ging the mouse directly into the Mac's Apple
Desktop Bus port instead of the keyboard.
Problem: The electronics in the mouse may

be flaking out. Symptom 19

Solution: Replace the mouse. Look into The Finder (or an application) is
better mice, graphics tablets, and trackballs, slower than usual.

Symptom 17

There’s a horizontal black line about
two thirds of the way down my
screen. Is my monitor broken?

Problem: All Sony Trinitron monitors have
this oddity.

Solution: Squint carefully at your next
monitor before buying it.

Symptom 18

The Finder won’t let me trash a
particular folder.

Problem: The folder is locked.

Solution: Do a Get Info on the file, uncheck
the Locked box and then trash the folder.

Problem: The folder may be in use.

Solution; Quit any application that uses a file
in the folder, and then trash it.

Solution: Hold down the Option key while
you trash the folder.

Problem: The folder may be shared.
Solution: Open the Sharing Setup control
panel and turn off File Sharing.

Solution: From the File menu select
“Sharing” and uncheck “Share this item and
its contents.” Open the folder to make sure
that no folders within it are shared (or consult
the list of Shared Items in the File Sharing
Monitor control panel).

Problem: The file system is corrupted.
Solution: Create an empty folder on a
different disk and give it the same name as the
folder you are trying to trash. Replace the
problem folder with the new, empty folder.
Solution: Use the shareware program,
HellFolderFix to throw away a problem folder.

Problem: The Finder has a lot of extra
information to track and it needs to
reorganize it.

Solution: Rebuild the Desktop.

Problem: Your Mac has a virus.

Solution: Run Disinfectant or a commercial
utility such as Symantec Antivirus for
Macintosh to scan your disks for viruses and
eradicate them.

Problem: The Calculate folder sizes option is
tamed on. This opUon requires some of your
Mac’s processor Ume in order to calculate the
size of your folders. The more folders you
have, the more time it requires.

Solution: Open the Views control panel and
turn off Calculate folder sizes. If you need to
know how big a folder is, do a Get Info on it.

Problem: Your disk is heavily fragmented.
Data is spread all over the place instead of
being in nice, neat rows. The Finder must
work harder to pick up the pieces when you
want a particular file.

Solution: Reformat your hard drive, or use a
tool like Norton Utilities to defragment it. Be
sure to back up your hard drive first.

Problem: You have too many files on your
hard drive or in a particular folder.

Solution: Remove some files from the hard
drive. If you have a folder with 1,000 items or
more, then remove some of the files from this
folder, or create a hierarchy of sub-folders.

Symptom 20

A particular application is behaving
oddly or crashing on my Mac. (Or, if
it is well-behaved, it puts up a mes-
sage about running out of memory.)

Problem: The application needs a little more
elbow room to roam in RAM.

Solution: Perform a Get Info on the applica-
tion and increase the preferred amount of
memory by a few hundred kilobytes or so.

Problem: The application is being squeezed
by other applications, even if they’re not open.
Solution: Quit all of your open applications
and then try launching the program.
Solution: Restart your Mac.

Problem: You’re using a Power Mac or a
PowerPC-based Performa and you’ve turned
off Virtual Memory. As a result, your
applications need more real RAM.

Solution: Itim on Virtual Memory to trick
your applications into thinking they have more
RAM. Open the Memory control panel and
tarn on Virtual Memory. Set it to 1MB more
than the actual RAM you have, and restart.

Problem: You have an extension conflict.
Solution: Hold down the Shift key at startup
to temporarily disable extensions and then try
using the application. If the problem
disappears, you’ll need to resolve the conflict.

Problem: The application may not be
compatible with your Mac or System software.
Solution: Contact the vendor to find out
which version you should use for your config-
uration. Ask whether there has been an update
or patch to the program since your purchase.

Problem: You have a corrupted font.
Solution: Find the culprit by removing half
your fonts at a time and when the program
stops crashing, add the fonts back in, one at a
time. Reinstall the corrupted font.

Solution: Install a fresh system.

Problem: A preferences file is corrupted.
Solution: Move the Preferences file for the
program into another folder. Usually, the
program will create a new Preferences file.
You may need to re-enter the program's serial
which is often stored in the Preferences file.
Solution: Reinstall the application from the
original disks.

Problem: The program has a bug.

Solution: Get the latest version of the
application from the vendor.

Symptom 21

The inside of my Mac sure is dirty.

Problem: Think of the Mac, with its fan, as a
very expensive air filter; all that dust would
have gone into your lungs, but instead, the
Mac sacrifices its health to save yours.
Solution: Use a can of compressed air (freon-
free) to blow dust out, away from moving parts
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by David Reynolds

“They say that choice is freedom. I’m so free I’m stuck in therapy.”

— Joe Jackson

W hat the hell happened? As part of its company makeover, Apple announced it
would simplify its product line. And, as promised, the company has cut down
its overall number of models. Yet, things remain as confusing as ever.

Apple is introducing one new Performa, making changes to three existing Power Macs
this summer, and cutting all but two of the remaining Performas (leaving three Performas
and four Power Macs) . While Apple’s lineup is indeed simpler, simplification hasn’t
caught on as a trend. Daystar, Power Computing, and Umax have several new Mac clones.
Altogether, the four Mac manufacturers introduced 22 new models and configurations, as
well as four new product lines in the past month. These machines are based upon three
different types of chips, some with new video systems, others with dual (and quad)
processors, most with larger caches, and one even comes with subwoofers. Yikes!

Before you make that now-infamous “Home Alone” face and start running for the exit
door of your local computer store, read through our guide to the fall Mac fashion lineup,
learn new tidbits about Macs: Performas are no longer the under-powered Macs they
once were; many new Macs sport processors running at 200MHz or higher; and Daystar
isn’t the only vendor to make multiprocessing Macs. Here’s the lowdown on the current
Mac and Mac compatible lineup (in rough order of price) as well as information on what
all the specs mean and why you should — or shouldn’t — care about multiprocessing.

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favorites among the new Macs and Mac compatibles:

Sheer Speed

PowerTower Pro 225: Load this big box up with your favorite periph-
erals and scads of memory, and get out of the way. This is one fast
mother. With a 604e chip running at 225MHz, there ain’t a desktop
computer on the planet that can beat it. Stand back — it burns!

Bargain Central

Power Macintosh 7600: This is one sweet box. It has just the right
combination of power, features, expansion options, and price.
Built-in A/V capabilities make it perfect for amateur videographers as
well as professional multimedia developers.

El Cheapo

PowerBase 1 80: As the cheapest Mac compatible currently in
production — under $1 ,500 — the PowerBase 1 80 will put a fast
PowerPC-based machine on your desktop for less than you’d spend
for a used Yugo. And it’ll be a lot safer to drive.

Just Too Cool

Performa 6400: This little tower with the big charisma isn’t the
cheapest or fastest Mac around, but once you see it.... We’re awed
by its exterior design and by the multitude of options. This box’s
sound is impressive. Play Marathon on it once, and you’re hooked.

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PowerBase

The PowerBase line is
aimed at the low-end
of the market. But
don’t confuse “low-
end” with “low-quality.”

The PowerBase 240’s
603e processor is
nearly the equivalent of
a 180MHz 604 — the same chip as the one in
the old PowerTower 180, which (just last
June) was the fastest single-processor Mac.
The PowerBase uses a fast IDE hard drive
and a PS/2 keyboard port that lets you
connect some PC peripherals.

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 603e at 180MHz, 200 MHz, or
240MHz

Level 2 Cache: 512K
PCI Slots: 3

Drives: 1.2GB hard drive (minimum),

8X CD-ROM

DIMM Slots: 3

RAM: 16MB standard; 160MB maximum
Modem: None

Video: 2MB VRAM standard; 4MB maximum
Price: $1,495 to $2,1 95
Wanted By: Bargain hunters who want extra
muscle for their money and by Mac heads
who like the idea of custom configuring a
machine with more RAM, a bigger hard drive,
or other peripherals such as a Zip drive.
Avoid Ifl You really want that subwoofer in
the Performa 6400 or any of that machine’s
video options and have the cash to prove it.

Biggest Marketing Ploy: Although 24 omhz

sounds really fast, the chip (like many other
fast PowerPC chips) is limited by bus speed.
The Drool Factor: Buy a 180MHz PowerPC-
based Mac compatible for under $1 ,500?

Power Macintosh 7200/120

The Power Mac 7200/1 20 is
the oldest Power Mac in
Apple’s lineup — and it shows.

This is the only Mac available
that still uses a first generation
RISC processor, the PowerPC
601 . And, at $2,299 (without a level 2 cache),
the price is too high compared to other offer-
ings. Granted, the Power Mac 7200 is
expandable and upgradable, but we still wish
Apple would put it out of its misery.

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 601 ati20MHz
Level 2 Cache: Optional 256K
PCI Slots: 3

Drives: 1.2GB hard drive (minimum),

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Price: $2,299
Wanted By: Those looking for Apple’s least
expensive PCI-based Power Macintosh.

Avoid If: You want a Mac with the latest,
greatest processor.

Biggest Marketing Ploy: a new pci-based

Mac with the 7x00 series designator should
have leapt to a 603 or 604 PowerPC chip.

The Drool Factor: The Power Mac 7200's
bus runs at 60MHz, meaning that this Mac
can get more oomph out of its chip.

Performa 6300 Series

Don’t discount the Performa
6300 series just because you
think anything with “Performa’
in the name has got to be a
wimpy machine. The 6300
sports a 100MHz 603e
processor, while the 6320 has a 120MHz
603e processor and A/V capabilities. These
Performas have lots of storage and memory,
and even a fast modem. They’re also the
cheapest Mac/monitor combo you can get
from Apple.

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 603e at lOOMHz or 120MHz
Level 2 Cache: 256K
Slots: 1 LC Processor-direct slot, 1
Communications slot, 1 Video slot
Drives: 1 ,2GB hard drive (minimum),

4X CD-ROM drive

SIMM slots: 2

RAM: 16MB standard, 64MB maximum
Modem: 28.8Kbps
Video: i mb of vram

Price: $2,279 to $2,499 (including monitor)
Wanted By: People who want a reasonably
priced, peppy Apple Macintosh, complete
with software and monitor.

Avoid If: You plan on installing a second
internal hard drive, need a lot of memory,
want to add a 1 7-inch or larger monitor, or
think you’ll want to add extra functionality via
a PCI card.

Biggest Marketing Ploy: The addition of the
letters CD after the Performa 6300CD model
number to indicate that it has a CD-ROM
drive and the inclusion of America Online as a
way to access the Internet.

The Drool Factor: Special software, micro-
phone, and modem let you use your

Modem: None

Performa 6300 as a speaker phone and
answering machine. An optional video card
turns your Mac into a TV and also lets you
capture video. Pre-installed software includes
Lode Runner and F/A-18. Very Cool.

PowerCenter

The aptly named
PowerCenter fits neatly
between Power
Computing’s
PowerBase and
PowerTower machines
in performance and
features. These Mac
compatibles offer a

solid bargain; unfortunately, they don’t offer
anything out-of-the-ordinary.

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 604at132MHzor150MHz

Level 2 Cache: 51 2K
PCI Slots: 3

Drives: IGB hard drive (minimum),

4X CD-ROM

DIMM Slots: 4

RAM: 16MB standard; 256MB maximum
Modem: None

Video: I MB VRAM standard; 4MB maximum

Price: $i,895to$2,480
Wanted By: People who foam at the mouth
for a 604-based Mac compatible but don’t
want to drain their bank accounts to get it.
Avoid If: You want to do heavy-duty multi-
media work or you just can’t stand the
thought of having a 4X CD-ROM drive in a
new Mac.

Biggest Marketing Ploy: There's not much
hype here.

The Drool Factor: Expandability and a
PowerPC 604 chip. It’s a practical Mac.

Performa 6400

This funky, high-end
Performa has a lot of
personality — and it’s a
personality to love.

This is the way Macs
ought to be. The
Performa 6400 is pow-
ered by a 180MHz or
200MHz 603ev proces-
sor, the functional equivalent of a Pentium
running at the same speed; or, all other
things being equal, a PowerPC 604 running
at around 130MHz (for the 1 80MHz version)
or almost 150MHz (for the 200MHz version).

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 603ev at 180MHz and 200MHz
Level 2 Cache: optional 256K

PCI Slots: 2

Drives: 1 .6GB hard drive (minimum),

8X CD-ROM

DIMM Slots: 2

RAM: 16MB standard; 136MB maximum

Modem: 28.8Kbps
Video: IMB of VRAM; not upgradable
Price: $2,499 to $2,799
Wanted By: Enthusiasts craving a fast,
mid-range Apple-branded Mac with lots of
neat gadgets like SRS 3D Surround Sound,
an optional TV tuner, and an optional video
capture card. Also great for gameplayers who
are dead-serious about the latest 3D games.
Avoid If: You need to go beyond one internal
SCSI bay, 136MB of RAM, or two short PCI
slots, or if you believe the optional L2 cache
shouldn’t be optional.

Biggest Marketing Ploy: They needed a
tower case for this? There must be more
empty space in here than in Fabio’s head.
The Drool Factor: Surround Sound, a
thumpin’ subwoofer speaker in the bottom of
the tower case, and 16-bit stereo in are very
cool features. Great legs and a curvy top also
help make this one sexy box.

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PowerTower 166

When the PowerTower 166
first appeared, we were
amazed by its 1 66MHz speed
and tower case. But now,
compared to the Performa
6400, the PowerTower 166 is,
well, lackluster. Sure, it’s still a solid machine,
fast, and expandable, but it lacks the pizazz
of Apple’s comparably priced — though
slightly slower— tower.

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 604at 166MHz
Level 2 Cache: 51 2K
PCI Slots: 3

Drives: 2GB hard drive (minimum),

4X CD-ROM

DIMM Slots: 4

RAM: 16MB standard; 256MB maximum
Video: 2MB VRAM standard; 4MB maximum
Modem: None
Price: $2,895

Wanted By: Those who want tower-like
performance in an actual, roomy tower box
for under $3,000.

Avoid If: You want a really, really fast tower
(like the Power Mac 9500 or PowerTower Pro)
or a really cool one (the Performa 6400)
instead.

Biggest Marketing Ploy: Hard to find a mar-
keting ploy on Power Computing Macs. They
am what they am, and that’s all what they am.
The Drool Factor: Enough power for most
desktop users at a price that’s not totally
insane. Room inside to grow.

I PowerPC processor running at 200MHz! Great! Where do I sign
up? Steady there— a processor running at 200MHz may not be
twice as last as one running at 100MHz.

What? Impossible, you say? Not so.

There are currently six PowerPC processors that you may run across
when searching for a new or used PowerPC-based Mac: the PowerPC
601, 603, 603e, 603ev, 604. and 604e. And while you might think that
the higher the chip number, the faster (as was the case with the 680x0
family), that’s not so. For example, the 603 is slower than the 601.

Here, then, is a guick primer on processors.

601 {This chip is a first generation RISC processor. Used in the
original Power Macs, the 601 kicked oft the move from 680x0-based
Macs. It is also seen in a slightly improved version, the 601 +.

Currently, the only shipping Mac that uses the PowerPC 601 processor
is the Power Mac 7200/120.

p _ pceo4e 603 Slower than the 601 , the 603 is also much

t smaller and requires less power which makes it ideal for

/tt) laptops and low-end desktop Macs. The 603 incorpo-

rates an 8K instruction cache and an 8K data cache that

- ~ hold on to information until the processor is ready to use

it. Thanks to the caches, the processor gets a steady
stream of data. None of the Macs currently being sold
new use the 603 processor.

603e ! The 603e is speedier than the 603 and is roughly equivalent to
a Pentium partly because its instruction and data caches have been dou-
bled to 16K each. Like its sibling chip, the 603e doesn't consume much
power, earning it a place in laptops. Speedwise, it tops out at 140MHz.

603ev: Also known as a 603p, the 603ev is, megahertz-for-mega-
hertz, about as fast as a 601. Otherwise similar to the 603e, the 603ev
has been accelerated to 240MHz, and engineers say that 300MHz is not
out of the question. Ever seen a Pentium-based computer run that fast?
Didn’t think so.

604 ! The 604 is the newest chip architecture to go into the Mac. Aside
from being faster, the 604 includes whopping 32K data and instruction
caches. The 604 is used mainly in higher performance desktop
Macintoshes. It runs about 1 .35 times faster than the 601 . Note that
some specialized software won’t run on a 603-based processor, instead
requiring a 601 or a 604.

604e I This is the newest and fastest chip to power a Mac— roi gmy
equivalent to a Pentium Pro running at the same clock speed. It gets
some of its speed gain from increasing the 604’s data and instruction
cache to 64K. The 604e is also damn fast: 225MHz to date, and faster
than any Pentium Pro-based machine.

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a lthough it’s fun to boast “I’ve
got six PCI slots, eight DIMM
slots, and six expansion bays.
What do you have?”, how
much expansion space do you really
need? Here’s a look at where the hype
separates from the reality.

Can anyone think of more than two PCI
cards they'd like to put in their Macs?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Unless you're a
heavy-duty prepress kind of Mac person, you
don’t need more than two slots. Here’s what
you might put there:

• Video card for a second monitor

• 3D acceleration card (although this func-
tion may soon be built into video cards)

• A/V card (if your Mac isn’t A/V capable
already)

• Ultra SCSI for RAID array (assuming you’ve
got big bucks)

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Say your Mac ships with 1 6MB of RAM. Do
you really need more than that? If so, say
you buy one 1 6MB card for your DIMM slot.
Then you’ve got 32MB of RAM. And who
needs more than 32MB of physical memory?
Say you do. If you only have two DIMM slots,
and both have 16MB cards in them, and you
want to add 8MB of more RAM, you'll have to
get rid of one of your 1 6MB cards and buy a
24MB card. Expensive. A better alternative
would be to make sure you have four DIMM
slots, which should give you enough
memory expansion options.

Expansion Bays

Expansion bays let you add storage devices
inside your Mac. This is helpful if you want to
keep clutter off your desk or if you want to go
beyond the seven-peripheral limit of your
external SCSI port. So how many bays
should you have? Ever have more than two
or three hard drives? Maybe you do, and, if
you’ve got some extra money, an internal Zip
or Jaz drive. Two bays for drives. That’s all
you’re likely to need — and most people can
get away with no extra bays at all.

You want one. No question about it. For most
Macs, a 256K cache is sufficient. If you really
jones after speed, and if your Mac has a fast
PowerPC 604 processor, then you might
consider a 51 2K or even 1 MB cache.
Remember though, you won’t see dramatic
speed gains beyond a 256K L2 cache.

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Power Macintosh 7600

Apple’s zippy low-end multi-
media Power Mac just got a
little speedier. The company
has dropped in a 132MHz 604
processor to replace the
1 20MHz chip of earlier days,
and the CD-ROM drive has been upgraded
to 8X.

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 604at132MHz

Level 2 Cache: 256K
PCI Slots: 3

Drives: 1.2GB hard drive (minimum),

8X CD-ROM

DIMM Slots: 8

RAM: 16MB standard; 512MB maximum
Modem: None

Video: 2MB VRAM standard; 4MB maximum,
A/V capabilities
Price: $2,999

Wanted By: Multimedia hounds working
without a Hollywood budget and Mac loyal-
ists who want a fast, expandable, upgradable
Apple-brand Mac at a reasonable cost. Does
it sound like we like this Mac? We do.

Avoid If: You don’t need the multimedia
capabilities. Spend the money you’ll save on
more RAM or hard drive space.

Biggest Marketing Ploy: Gosh, we can t
think of one.

The Drool Factor: Indulge your fondest
audio and video desires with a Power Mac
built to please. Besides, this Mac can support
a 250MHz processor, should one be made
available for it.

PowerTower

Now these are towers.

The PowerTower line
has been tweaked
to include the new
604e chips in two of its
high-end models.

These new
PowerTowers offer a
lot of room to grow,

Power Mac 9500-class performance, and
an awesome price.

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 604e at 180MHz or 200MHz

Level 2 Cache: 512K
PCI Slots: 3

4X CD-ROM drive

DIMM Slots: 4

RAM: 16MB standard; 512MB maximum
Modem: None

Video: 2MB VRAM standard; 4MB maximum
Price: $3,295 to $3,595
Wanted By: Those who want a lot of power
and expandability in their Mac compatible
while staying on a budget.

Avoid If: Money is no object. At that point,
you may as well go all the way to the
PowerTower Pro or the Power Mac 9500.
Biggest Marketing Ploy: How many drive
bays do you need?

The Drool Factor: A fast processor and big
cache make this one mean machine. And, as
with all Power Computing systems, you can
get a Zip drive and a Jaz drive built in.

Power Macintosh 8500

The top-of-the-line
multimedia Mac from
Apple also got a shot
of adrenaline. Now
sporting two different
processors from which
to choose, the Power
Mac 8500/1 50 uses a
604 and the 8500/180
uses a 604e. It also has one of the new 8X
CD-ROM drives.

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 604 at 150MHz or 604e at
180MHz

Level 2 Cache: 256K
PCI Slots: 3

Drives: 1.2GB hard drive (minimum),

8X CD-ROM

DIMM Slots: 8

RAM: 16MB standard (150MHz) or 32MB
standard (180MHz); 136MB maximum
Modem: None

Video: 2MB VRAM standard; 4MB maximum,
64-bit graphics subsystem

Price: $3,599 to $4,499
Wanted By: Multimedia mavens (with
money) for whom 132MHz is just not enough.
Avoid If: You want a high-end machine but
don't want to do audio/visual work.

Biggest Marketing Ploy: including the 604e
chip only on the 180MHz model. The 604e
should be in both configurations.

The Drool Factor: This is a high-class,

expandable, multimedia Mac, in some ways

reminiscent of the Quadra 840AV, a Mac that

Umax

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or those who have very special-
ized needs (and all 20 of you
know who you are), Apple and
Daystar make machines that
use two or four microprocessors working
in parallel to get the job done, and some
Mac compatibles from Umax have a slot
for a second processor. Although multi-
ple processors don’t do much for overall
speed or system response time (if every-
one used a multiprocessor Mac, and
Apple rewrote the Mac OS to take
advantage of that, then it might be a dif-
ferent story), they can do amazing things
in certain situations, provided the soft-
ware has been written to take advantage
of more than one microprocessor.

(hen all the multiprocessor planets and
stars are aligned correctly, the speed
gains can be sizable. Daystar Digital
makes several multi-processor Mac com-
patibles. These cutting edge beasts
range from the Genesis MP 360+ (which
uses two 180MHz 604e processors) to
the Genesis MP 800+ (which uses four
200MHz 604e processors). A Genesis
MP running the multiprocessor-aware
version of Photoshop whups butt on
even an SGI Indy, and that's not easy.
Photoshop isn’t the only application that
shows blazing speed on Genesis Macs.
Using the multiprocessor-aware version
of AfterEffects, a Genesis MP bench-
marks nearly four times faster than a sin-
gle-processor Power Macintosh 9500
(the older version with the 150MHz 604).

ultiprocessor Macs aren't cheap, typi-
cally running from $5,000 to $15,000.

The lack of multiprocessor-aware soft-
ware isn't helping the cause any either.
Apple is changing this by committing to
multiprocessor options across the Power
Macintosh line in 1997 and by promoting
mulitprocessor-aware software develop-
ment. If multiprocessing makes it into OS
8, look for some swift possibilities.

S900L

It’s almost easy to dis-
count the S900 L, the
first clone entry from
Umax, in all the hoopla
over new towers from
Apple and Power
Computing. Still, this
clean machine’s a win-
ner thanks to its solid
design and Umax’s attention to detail.

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 604ati50MHz
Level 2 Cache: 512K
PCI Slots: 6

Drives: 1GB hard drive (minimum),

6.7X CD-ROM

DIMM Slots: 8

RAM: 16MB standard; 1GB maximum
Modem: None
Video: 4MB standard
Price: $3,995

Wanted By: Those who want to buy an
elegant, fast Mac compatible that isn’t made
by Apple.

Avoid If: You long for top-of-the-line speed.

Biggest Marketing Ploy: Six pci slots—

who really needs that much expandability?
The Drool Factor: The S900 L has a second
processor slot if you want to take the plunge
into multiprocessing.

PowerTower Pro 225

At least for the next few hours, the
PowerTower Pro line boasts the fastest
single-processor personal computer on the

planet — the PowerTower Pro
225. Faster than the fastest
Mac and faster than the
fastest PC, it’s a screamer. It’s
just plain fast. The
PowerTower Pro 180 and 200

are no slouches, either, and the line’s 1 MB
Level 2 caches ensure their processors get a
steady stream of data to crunch.

Fast, fast, fast.

Vital Statistics:

Processor: 604e at 180MHz, 200MHz, or
225MHz

Level 2 Cache: imb
PCI Slots: 6

Drives: 2GB hard drive (minimum),

8X CD-ROM drive

DIMM Slots: 8

RAM: 16MB RAM standard; 1GB maximum
Modem: None

Video: 2MB VRAM, 4MB maximum

Price: $4,1 95 to $4,995
Wanted By: Big-time power users, graphics
professionals, or anyone who wants to play
Marathon the way it was meant to be played.
Avoid If: You aren’t rich. Although the price
is right for the power, the stickers on these
machines put them out of reach of the
average worker bee.

Biggest Marketing Ploy: 6 pci slots, come

on. Can you even buy six different kinds of
PCI cards?

The Drool Factor: so fast, Descent 11 win

make you hurl if you play it on one of these.
Nine drive bays can be crammed with all
kinds of power peripherals.

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processors at 180MHz

Level 2 Cache: 51 2K
PCI Slots: 6

Drives: 2GB hard drive (minimurj
8X CD-ROM

DIMM Slots: 12

RAM: 32MB standard; 768MB
Modem: None

Video: 2MB VRAM standard; 4M^

Price: $4,899 to $5,699
Wanted By: Those who need Apple’s
fastest, most expandable Mac.

Avoid If: You have a serious budget problem
or are prone to wild spending sprees.

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not much software that can take af itage c
multiple processors.

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muscular.

Umax recently
acquired the
SuperMac name
from Radius and
has been busy building new
machines. Two new SuperMac
models— Typhoon and
Riptide — debuted in early
August. At press time, here’s
what we knew about them.

A low-

end Mac compatible with a
140MHz 603e processor and an
L2 cache. It includes 16MB of
RAM plus has two empty DIMM
slots. There’s a 1 .2GB hard
drive and a 4X CD-ROM drive.

mm It sits at

the high end of the mid-range
line. It uses a 133MHz
PowerPC 604 processor and
has a 512K L2 cache. It
includes 16MB of RAM and has
8 DIMM slots. Plus, it’s got 4
PCI slots, a 2GB hard drive and
an 8X CD-ROM drive.

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Performa 6400

DEVELOPER: Apple Computer

CONTACT: 408-996-1010; http://www.apple.com

PRICE: $2,499 to $2,799

Speed Rush

• In two tests using SpeedTester 2.0,
the Performa 6400 beats the Power
Macintosh 7500/100 by nearly two-
to-one (as one would expect from a
nearly equivalent processor running
twice as fast).

• We also tested the Performa 6400
with SimCity 2000 by running a city
of 88,000 through 20 years at
SimCity’s highest speed. The
Performa 6400 was over 50 percent
faster than the Power Macintosh
7500/1 00 in this test, which mea-
sures more than just processor speed.

A Performa with power — isn’t that an oxymoron? Not when it’s
the Performa 6400. It delivers high performance (it outper-
forms the 7500/100 nearly two-to-one), comes in a curvy
minitower, and includes incredible A/V options. We’ve fallen in love
with the Performa 6400 (even the skeptical). After all, putting a
small board (only two PCI slots and 2 DIMM slots) in a tower seems
excessive. Standard equipment on the Performa 6400 is a PowerPC
603e running at 180MHz or 200MHz, 2 PCI slots, 2 DIMM slots,
1.6GB hard drive, 1 6 MB of RAM, 28.8Kbps modem and 1 6 -bit audio
input and output. Like all Performas, the 6400 comes with
keyboard, mouse, all the right cables, and a ton of bundled soft-
ware. Unlike other Performas, the 6400 ships “headless" — that is,
without a monitor.

The Performa 6400 charmed the socks off us from the moment
it arrived. Here’s why it’s the MacAddict Editorial Corral's Favorite
New Mac:

More charisma than Denzel Washington. A lot of nice
touches add up to another winner in the Performa 6400. It does
great sound. Besides supporting 1 6 -bit audio both in and out, it has
built in SRS Surround Sound on the logic board. Ricked into the
base of the tower is a subwoofer that pumps up the bass. The front
panel has an earphone jack, ideal for plugging in when you want to
listen to your Mac, but nobody else in the room does. It also has a
front-mounted manual volume control and an infrared sensor for a
remote control. The case design attracts its
own share of admirers. With its curvy legs
and top, it can’t be mistaken for other Macs
(clones or otherwise).

It’s got legs. Literally. The Performa
6400 has cute, curvy legs that leave room to
pick it up. This is important because the
Performa 6400 is heavier than one might
expect, and it’s great to have a place to hold
on when moving the tower. The legs also give
the subwoofer room to pump out those low-
frequency notes. The Performa 6400 also has
the right combination of power and charm to
last a while in the fast-moving Mac arena.

Awesome options. The A/V options
make the Performa 6400 an exceptional Mac.
The Apple Video System ($109), brings live
television right into your Mac. It’s cable-

THE TOWER FEEL GOOD FAN CLUB: not bad for a 603e-based Performa.

WITH AVID CINEMA, storyboard-
ing, editing video, and adding
special effects (including wipes,
transitions, and text over video)
is easy and intuitive — and fun.

ready, so you can watch your
favorite TV shows while you
work. The Video System also accepts composite video and S-video
input, so you can play with taped footage straight from your VCR, or
record live footage from your video camera. The Apple TV/FM
Radio System (around $150), which does all of the above, also lets
you listen to FM radio on your Mac. Avid Cinema’s an additional
$459- It’s a PCI card that comes with digital video editing software.
Avid Cinema (also available for other PCI-based Macs) lets you cre-
ate transitions and storyboards, and lets you output your creations
in QuickTime format or dump your video straight to tape.

The Verdict. The Performa 6400 is the best machine for the
mid-range Mac maniac to come out of Apple in some time. It com-
bines power, a great software bundle (including PhotoDeluxe,
Descent and Web Workshop), and A/V options to deliver a lot of
value. To get the most from your money, be sure to buy the option-
al 256K level 2 cache (it should have been standard equipment)
and the TV/FM tuner, which will add about $250 to the total bill. It’s
well worth the price. If you’re going to do any video editing,
consider the extra $459 for Avid Cinema. Added up, this Mac will do
almost anything you want. — David Reynolds

GOOD NEWS: Sexy case. Screaming fast 180MHz or 200MHz 603e
chip. Great options including 16-bit audio in/out and Avid
Cinemania video card.

BAD NEWS: Expansion options limited by 2 PCI slots (7" each) and
2 DIMM slots. Level 2 cache is optional.

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YOYO

YOYO CAN TELL WHO’S CALLING BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE,
provided that Caller ID information is transmitted properly, which
happens only half the time.

DEVELOPER: Big Island Communications
CONTACT: 408-342-0502; http://www.big-island.com
PRICE: $135 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: Any Mac except Mac Plus, SE, or Classic, System 7.01 or
later, 5MB of RAM, 2.5MB of hard disk space

W e’ve been waiting and waiting (rather impatiently, too)
for YoYo, a space age-looking gadget that promises to
perform “cool tricks for your telephone.” It's supposed to
provide on-screen Caller ID notification, track incoming and
outgoing calls, play unique sound effects for individual callers,
block unwanted calls, and send information to wireless pagers. But
while YoYo does all of these things to a degree, it’s questionable
whether the current incarnation delivers enough practical value to
justify its price.

YoYo is slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes, with indicator
lights on the front, and ports for connecting to a phone line and
telephone on the back, as well as a hard-wired ADB cable and
connector for the power transformer. The YoYo doesn’t need a
power switch since it gathers Caller ID information even when the
Mac is off. However, to see who has called, you must turn on the
Mac and wait for the Finder to appear. This major pain could have
been avoided had Big Island included a display like those found
on even the simplest Caller ID devices.

Caller ID services are supposed to provide subscribers with the
phone number (and in some cases, the name) of a caller. (Most
Caller ID services run about $5 to $9 per month.) YoYo displays
this information in a little window, so in theory you can tell who
is calling before you answer. In practice, half the calls are
unidentifiable for reasons beyond YoYo’s control: Some callers
intentionally block the transmission of their Caller ID info; smaller
phone companies may not send the required info; and calls com-
ing from certain types of phones (international, cellular, office PBX
systems, and pay phones) aren’t yet fully integrated into the Caller
ID system.

When a call comes in, YoYo automatically creates a log entry
and presents a small window which either shows the caller’s name
or gives you the option of adding them to the Phonebook. YoYo’s
Phonebook is a stripped-down personal information manager.
Unfortunately, it’s so stripped down that you can’t rely on it

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well-designed and intuitive program.

exclusively to track all of your contacts.

Instead, count on buying a stand-alone
PIM (ACT, FileMaker Pro, Now Contact,
or TouchBase Pro) that YoYo can
communicate with via AppleScript.

Armed with a fleshed-out
Phonebook, YoYo’s bells and whistles
really shine. You can assign unique
sound effects to individual callers (“Oh
no, Mr. Bill” when your ex calls) , so
you can hear who is calling even when
you’re away from your Mac. Distinctive
ringing is cute, but the novelty wears
off quickly. Morepractical — ifyouhave
a problem with unwanted phone
calls — is the ability to block calls based
upon time of day or phone number.

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feature of YoYo is paging. Rather than
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machine for important messages when you are away from
your phone, you can configure YoYo to send the Caller ID
information to your pager, allwithout the caller’s knowledge. Also,
you can use YoYo to send messages to anyone in your Phonebook
who has a pager.

If the telephone is a major part of your life, YoYo’s unique
features may provide enough value to justify its price. But consid-
er the alternatives first. Simple Caller ID devices that don’t
connect to the Mac start at $20, and many modems have Caller ID
capability built in. — Owen V. Linzmayer

GOOD NEWS: Phone-dependent users will appreciate clean interlace,
automatic call legging, and robust blocking and paging features.

BAD NEWS: Usefulness limited by lack of display. Large percentage
of calls without Caller ID information. Feature-poor Phonebook.

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DeskWritei 680C/6S2C

DEVELOPER: Hewlett-Packard
CONTACT: 800-243-9812; http://www.hp.com
PRICE: $309 (880C); $329 (682C)

REQUIREMENTS: System 68020-based Mac, 8MB of RAM, System 7.0 or later

H ewlett-Packard has a well-deserved reputation for making
high-quality, low-cost laser and ink-jet printers. So how does
their rep stand up after their latest offering for the home — the
HP DeskWriter 680C/682C? Very well, indeed.

First off, the only difference between the 680C and 682C is that
the 682C comes with Disney software for making cards, banners,
samples of HP’s special greeting card and banner paper, and a “fam-
ily fun kit,’' that includes several craft ideas and supplies. The 682C
is the printer you’ve probably seen heavily advertised on TV and in
print — HP is milking their Disney license for all it’s worth.

The 680C is a ink-jet printer — with all the advantages and dis-
advantages implied. Print quality can vary gready depending upon
the paper used. The more porous the paper, the fuzzier the text and
images; so although it can print black and white at 600 dpi in its best
mode, the text quality is right around that of a 300 dpi laser printer.
Because of ink seepage into the paper, color images also tend to
print much darker than they look on screen. HP (and other ven-
dors) sell special papers that take ink-jet ink much better than stan-
dard bond, but for most uses, regular (cheap) bond works just fine.

Ink-jets as a breed are slow, and the 680C is no exception. It
takes the 680C about a minute to print a page of text in Best mode,
and about five minutes to print a full-page color image. So what’s the
advantage? In a word: cost. The 680C is about a tenth the price of a

NOT TOO SHABBY. THE LINES ARE SHARP, the contrast is good, and the
earth tones are realistic. This image took about five minutes to print in Best
mode (300 dpi) on HP’s mid-range, coated paper.

THE DESKWRITER 680C DELIVERS VIVID COLOR for around $300 —
what more do you want in a printer? The 682C brings banners and
Disney products to your home.

color laser printer, and although the output quality is not quite as
high, it is more than acceptable for most home uses.

The printer comes with its own driver and custom software,
ColorSmart, and has a variety of output resolutions: 300 dpi in Draft
mode; 300 x 600 dpi in Normal mode for text (300 dpi for Normal
color printing) ; and 600 dpi for black-and-white; or 300 x 600 for
color in Best mode. (You need the special glossy paper to achieve
Best mode when printing color.)

Setup and installation are a breeze — with two caveats. First, the
manual could be more friendly and better organized. Second, and
more importantly, there is no cable included to connect your Mac
to the printer! This is a glaring error. HP has probably saved about
$ 1 per unit, at the cost of many unhappy customers. Nothing cre-
ates a worse out-of-the-box experience than realizing you need to
return to the store to buy something else. On the plus side, techni-
cal support was free (via a toll call), friendly, and accurate.
Additionally, you can hook the printer to your Mac via a serial port
or, if you want to share it over a network, via an AppleTalk port.

The printer uses two ink cartridges: one for black, and one for
cyan, magenta, and yellow. The output quality for both color and
black-and-white is very good on regular bond, and excellent on ink-
jet bond and glossy papers. The number of paper-handling options
is also impressive, as is its ability to print on index cards, labels,
transparencies, and more than one envelope at a time. The printer
uses fan-fold (or banner) paper, a godsend to Print Shop junkies.
Hint: if you want your color ink to last more than a day, stay away
from creating full color banners, and print in Draft mode.

Because of it’s speed, we wouldn’t recommend the 680C as the
sole printer for a home office (it’s too slow), but for general home
users (especially those with children), those who like to do creative
computing themselves, or those who want a second printer for color
jobs like family photos, the 680C is a great buy. — Chris Charla

GOOD NEWS: It’s cheap. Print quality is high (it the right paper is
used). Offers multiple resolutions.

BAD NEWS: Doesn't come with a cable to connect the printer to
your Mac. Weak manual.

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SilverScanner Pro

J ust when you thought it was safe to dive back into pixels,
another flatbed scanner surfaces. La Cie’s SilverScanner Pro,
however, is a beautiful piece of work. This 24-bit, single-pass
scanner looks great and makes sharp, colorful scans right out of the
box. It comes with Caere’s OmniPage Lite to perform OCR, a Photoshop
plug-in, and ScanPrep, a utility that automates Photoshop’s image
processing tools. And, if you don’t own Photoshop, you can purchase
Photoshop LE (a lite version) for an extra $70. In short, you get all
the tools you need to go to work almost immediately. Unfortunately,
this elegance in design and functionality did not carry over to the
plug-in interface, and the documentation is a little spotty.

The SilverScanner Pro delivers accurate colors (including flesh
tones) from the get go. It also does excellent work with sharpness
and tone, especially in grayscale mode. Tweaking the scanner
settings made these scans even better,
resulting in great tonal reproduction
and sharp, clear images. There were a
few specific conditions that resulted in
some bad scans. Scanning glossy-
finish photos produced images with an
overall gray haze, and the scanner
could not press those photos flat
against the scanner glass, which caused
occasional streaking. However, matte
pictures rested flat on the bed and
scanned beautifully.

The SilverScanner Pro is quick.

Scanning a black-and-white 4x6 inch
print (the scanner has a scan area of
8.5 x 11.7 inches) at 256 shades of
gray and 72 dpi took only 10 seconds.

Increasing the resolution to 300 dpi
also increased the scanning time to 30
seconds. The same image in 24-bit
color scanned in at 72 dpi jumped the
time from 10 to 40 seconds and at 300
dpi, took 90 seconds. With software
interpolation, the SilverScanner can
increase its resolution from 300 x 600
to 1200 x 2400. While interesting, this
is of little practical use. Scanning a 3 x 5 inch image at 2400 dpi
took 28 minutes and the final image was muddy.

Installation went relatively smoothly with some help from the
SilverScanner manual. Although the first 30 pages is a quick read
and contains important setup and operation information (Section 3,
“A Scanning Primer” is a must-read), there was no mention in the
La Cie manual of the ScanPrep utility. The ScanPrep documentation
is hidden on the installation disk.

GRAY-SCALE IMAGES come clear.
Notice the facial tones and the
smooth lines along the jaw.

THE SILVERSCANNER PRO did a great job with the
sewer cover detail; however, the fine variations In
the flower color didn’t show up nearly as well.

THE PLUG-IN interface for the SilverScanner
Pro could use a lot of help. Preferably a few
well-muscled, strong-arm tactics.

There were a couple of other bumps
during installation, but La Cie's tech
support was great. Photoshop refused to
recognize La Cie’s SilverScanner plug-in
until the Photoshop
preferences file was
thrown away (a prob-
lem if you’ve spent a lot
of time tweaking your

Photoshop preferences). La Cie’s technical
support provided this solution after only five
seconds on hold — impressive.

Once the SilverScanner plug-in fired up,
though, I wished Apple had an Office of Interface
Compliance staffed with big Sicilian guys named
Guido and Knuckles. They would have full-time
jobs at La Cie. The SilverScanner’s plug-in
window is pretty darn ugly thanks to an atrocious
color scheme and awkward placement of options.
Fortunately, most of the features and information
that you expect are here — preview, scaling, image
size, and resolution — with the glaring exception
of the RAM required to complete a scan. One
particularly nice touch to the interface is the small
arrows under the “Resolution” slider. Each of
these arrows is a preset dpi setting which makes
selecting frequendy used resolutions simple.

Overall? The La Cie SilverScanner Pro is a good
buy. It’s quick, it’s inexpensive, and it delivers
quality scans — what else do you want? A major
interface rework and a lid that keeps glossy photos flat against the
glass are two suggestions, but as it stands, the SilverScanner Pro
does the job. — Christian Jacobsen

GOOD NEWS: Scanner produces high-quality images.

BAD NEWS: Software interlace uninspiring. Documentation sparse
in places.

DEVELOPER: La Cie

CONTACT: 800-999-1179; http://www.lacie.com
PRICE: $599 (srp)

REQUIREMENTS: SCSI-Capable Mac, System 6 or later, 40MB of hard drive
space, 5MB of RAM

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Descent II

PUBLISHER: MacPIay

CONTACT: 1-800-4MACPLAY; http://www.macplay.com
PRICE: $59.95 (sip); $47.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: Power Macintosh with 10MB of free RAM (16MB of free RAM
recommended), double-speed CD-ROM drive

H old on to your stomach, you’re in for another roller coaster
ride in Descent II. After surviving the challenge of the first
Descent, you cruise victoriously in Vertigo-1 through anl
asteroid belt and dock with a large PTMC space station. Ready to
reap your just rewards, you’re blindsided when the powers that be
exploit a tiny loophole in your contract and send you to the Zeta
Aquilae system for an additional 72 hours of underground mayhem.

Fortunately, this time you’re not alone. Joining you on your
journey is a friendly, programmable
Guide-Bot that can seek out keycards,
hostages, powerups, robots, the reactor,
and the level exit. By default, the Guide-
Bot seeks out your next goal on the way
toward completing the level and, if you
fall behind, it will turn around and come
back for you. This is a great help to
newcomers, who can easily become
disoriented while twisting and turning in
the claustrophobic 3D tunnels. You can
also enable up to three views at once with
cameras behind you, in the Guide-Bot, in
your missiles, or — in network games —
in markers dropped behind you that help
you keep an eye out for foes.

Sequels to 3D shoot-’em-up games
usually deliver huge leaps in technological
innovation. Descent II is no different,
adding an environment full of animated
effects, like water and lava in which to
cruise and destroy marauding bands of
robot spacecraft. Gameplay is further
enhanced by ten minutes of hard rocking
CD audio by Skinny Puppy’s “Ogre” and
“Type 0 Negative,” which add a pulsing
beat as you cruise through 30 new hostile
alien mines to save trapped humans, blow
up the shaft, and escape. (If you don't like the bundled music, you
can, thankfully, substitute your favorite audio CD. “Sticky Fingers” by
the Rolling Stones makes for an interesting soundtrack.)

What? All of this isn’t enough for you? Well, check out Descent
IPs wealth of gameplay options. There are 22 varieties of weapons
(10 of which are new), and 11 different powerups that provide
anything from shield boosters to a new afterburner that can
temporarily double your top speed. A headlight powerup makes it
easier to navigate the darker comers of the mines, but it also draws
enemy fire. It’s a good thing you can turn it off — if you can recall
which key to push. Learning all of the available keypresses and

THE UNDERSEA MINESHAFT is just one of several new environments in
Descent II, which makes good use of animated textures to render a real-
istic new alien world.

BLOWING AWAY ALIEN ATTACK ROBOTS isn’t the
name of the game, but it might as well be!

A FRIENDLY GUIDE-BOT, new in this
version, escorts you through the
twisting 3D mineshaft in search of
keycards.

remembering them under fire is,
perhaps, your biggest challenge. The
game is topped off with 30 new robot
foes, the most notable of which is a Thief-
Bot that can steal your weapons, ammo,
powerups, and even cheat code-enabled
attributes, such as invulnerability!

Network play is where Descent II
shines. Up to eight players can join and
leave games already in progress across an
Ethernet network that is running the IPX
protocol. AppleTalk games allow up to
three players in a deathmatch or two
players for cooperative play. Net games
can be open, closed, or restricted, allowing invitation
only access.

With a game this flexible, what could possibly be bad?
For one thing, optimal gameplay is available only with a
Power Mac with 24MB of RAM. Players with less RAM
may have to settle for less detail, fewer sound effects, and
other compromises. Also, to prevent freezes and lockups
that can lead to corrupted pilot flies, you must turn off all
unnecessary system extensions. Despite Descent II’s abil-
ity to directly control many popular Mac joysticks (such
as those from ThrustMaster and Gravis), you must man-
ually tweak the default settings to enable simple things
such as button control of forward and reverse movement.
Finally, the interface falls short of being Mac-like, forcing you to
navigate DOS-style menus to customize and launch gameplay.

These are minor quibbles with an otherwise fantastic entry into
the realm of 3D action games. The arcade-like quality of Descent II
is unmatched on the Mac. Descent II is the ultimate cross between a
flight sim and a Doom-type shoot-’em-up game. — Dave Kramer

Good news: Redbook audio and true 3D effects make for engaging
gameplay. Unmatched arcade-like quality.

Bad news: Stiff RAM reguirements. Pilot file prone to corruption.
Dramamine may be necessary

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DEVELOPER: Origin

CONTACT: http://www.origin.ea.com/origin
PRICE: $48.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: Power Mac, System 7.1 or later, 2x CD-ROM drive, 8M8 of
RAM, 46MB of free hard drive space

I n Wing Commander IV you — as your on-screen persona of
Christopher Blair — spend a good deal of time out of the cockpit.
After single-handedly winning the last war for the Confederation,
you (Blair) are called into duty again to deal with a new and ambigu-
ous threat. Some of your old comrades are back, as is your nemesis,
Admiral Tolwyn (Malcom McDowell) . However, “all is not as it seems,"
and your clear-headedness and loyalties are tested to the limit.
Full-motion scenes are more than gimmicks to pad out the game; at
crucial points you have to decide what to say, and depending upon
your choice of words, the story takes on a new tack. The production
values are darn good, and the actors come off much better against
the real sets than against Wing Commander Hi’s blue-screened ones.
For over $10 million in production costs, they should.

There are gaps in the plot, however, and things do eventually boil
down to getting back into the cockpit and shootin' down bogies.

IN A DOGFIGHT, watch
where you’re going as well
as where you've been.

Gameplay is an evolution of
Wing Commander Ill’s, so
followers of Blair’s career
should be comfortable
right away. Refinements have been made to the flight engine: there’s
a better heads-up display; the ships’ graphic detail is smoother; and
the land missions no longer take place on uniformly white surfaces.
This is not real spaceflight, however — not even close. Ships bank,
slow when not under power, and scream by at close range. Oh well,
it’s consistent, and the real thing would likely be slow and frustrat-
ing. The Dolby Surround Sound is incredible, and I found myself
leaning as I turned my ship, and flinching at a missile hit.

With six CDs and a several game tracks, the game provides decent
replayability, despite missions becoming uncomfortably similar, and
a little wearisome, after say, six hours of play. Still, it’s great to blast a
hole in the ether and zoom through the stars. — D. D. Turner

GOOD NEWS: Like Wing Commander ill, only better. Fantastic sound.
Terrific spaceflight fight.

BAD NEWS: Like Wing Commander III. Needs a fast, memory-filled
Mac. Space opera a bit overblown.

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MechWarrior 2

PUBLISHER: Activision

CONTACT: 310-473-9200; http://www.activision.com
PRICE: $59.95 (srp); $47.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: System 7.5.1 or later, PowerPC processor, 11MB of RAM, CD-

ROM drive, 45MB of free space on the hard drive

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£1 hort of actually building a BattleMech in your garage with
plans of unleashing its power on the suburban neighborhood
IV of your choice, MechWarrior 2 comes as close as you’re going

to get to the real thing. Based on the FASA BattleTech Universe,
MechWarrior 2 is a 3D battle sim with a rich story line and a

put into the development of realistic controls and physics (more
titan two years since the original MechWarrior), the game invites
you into its world without any distractions of disbelief. Then, once
you’re truly immersed into the game, the mission objectives take on
a whole new sense of weight and urgency, adding to the overall
enjoyment of the experience.

Offering more than 50 missions, each ranging in size and scope,
MechWarrior 2 begins with your pledging allegiance to one of two
rival Clans. Both the Jade Falcon and the Wolf Clans have their own
agendas and your game heavily depends upon which side you
choose to belong. Once you’ve decided upon your Clan, you have
the option of learning how to operate the BattleMechs in an exten-
sive Cadet Training program, or jumping right in to the first mission.

Missions consist of a few objectives which must be met in order
to advance the ultimate cause of your Clan. Each mission takes you
to a different location giving the game great variety in look and char-
acter. The early missions are reasonably considerate of the fact that
controlling the BattleMechs is
not, at first, an easy thing to
do and it takes practice to
take full advantage of its fea-
tures. Once you get your feet
wet in the early missions, the
game turns up the heat with
more complicated objectives
and aggressive foes.

Beyond the complex
missions and in-depth story
line of banished Clans living
in a constant state of war, the
sheer number of available
gameplay features makes
MechWarrior 2 worthy of
high praise. With 1 5 different BattleMechs, all easily customized, the
game offers a generous variety of gameplay elements. Thanks to the
true 3D graphics, there are also several camera perspectives. Play
from within the cockpit of your BattleMech, trailing behind it, or
even from an overhead satellite view: There are still more options
within each of these views. For example, from within the cockpit,
you can look left and right, up and down, and even zoom in and out
of the Z axis. Aah, total freedom.

FROM WITHIN THE COCKPIT you can control every
aspect of your BattleMech including camera perspec-
tives, weapon choices, and full 360-degree motion.

FROM INTRICATE CITYSCAPES to vast desert wastelands,
MechWarrior 2 offers a significant variety of arenas in which to play.

LEARNING TO
TAKE FULL
ADVANTAGE of
your Mech’s
weaponry is all
a part of
becoming
successful in
later missions.

Graphically, MechWarrior 2 does more than necessary to
impress. From the awesome intro sequences which set the tone of
the entire game to the detailed texture-mapped environments, the
real-time 3D landscapes are thoroughly convincing and highly
stylized. Also adding to the game’s immersive nature are a host of
thunderous sound effects and sporadic, but effective, soundtrack
snippets. The result is an environment which makes sense and yet
seems totally foreign.

One minor annoyance is that Activision's installer automatically
puts Sound Manager 3- 1 in your System Folder and forces you to
restart. If you have System 7.5.3 (System 7.5 Update 2.0) you’ve
already got Sound Manager 3.2 built in to the System and don’t need
another outdated version floating around. You'd think that in this
day and age an installer would be smart enough to figure that out.

In the end, MechWarrior 2 is a stellar game because it balances
the immediate fun of blasting 3D Mechs with a more complex
simulation element. Throughout the game, you can play on any of
several levels — from hanging on every word of the story line as it
continues to unravel with each mission to going after objectives
simply as a means to advance to the next level. With fun and depth
to spare, MechWarrior 2 is more than enough game for just about
anyone. It was well worth the wait. — Patrick Baggatta

Good news: Plenty of depth in gameplay. Story is made even better
with awesome graphics and sound.

Bad news: It takes awhile to master complex controls. No network
play. Installer adds SoundManager 3.1 willy-nilly.

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Afterlife

DEVELOPER: Lucas Arts

CONTACT: 1-800-98-LUCAS; http://www.lucasarts.com
PRICE: Price: $49.95 (srp)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.1 or later, 33MHz 68040 or better, 8MB
of RAM, 256 color display

H eaven and hell are expecting an influx of souls and — narcis-
sism aside — you’re god. Afterlife puts you in charge of the
urban development of heaven and hell. You lay down roads to
control the traffic of souls, zone for seven virtues and seven vices,
and add special buildings to the maps of your after-realms. The Disco
Inferno and other not-so-natural disasters may arrive to lay waste to
your carefully laid plans while souls wait in convenient Limbo Bars.

Afterlife could have been released as a graphics add-on for Maxis’
SimCity 2000. Buildings grow just as they did in SimCity, and the
charts and graphs that help you foster population growth are also
virtually identical to those in SimCity. As a result, Afterlife’s learning
curve and corresponding challenge is quite tame.

But who cares? Afterlife is a welcome addition to the sim family.
Graphics are extraordinary. Each building is painstakingly detailed,

the advisors wonderfully animated, and disasters hilariously drawn.

The rich detail makes playing in this sandbox a delight — each build-
ing has a story which would make even Ebenezer think well of ghosts.

Unfortunately, Afterlife’s interface is idiosyncratic. Navigating the
map via the scroll bars is almost impossible: try clicking on the place
you want to go in the map window. Command-W won’t work to close
windows. The game’s graphics get in the way: It’s easy to
miss by one or two squares when placing objects. You
may find it easier to play with the graphics off.

Finally, Afterlife’s gameplay has one seriously annoy-
ing flaw. Each building has a “balance” which must con-
stantly be tweaked to have a properly “efficient” heaven
or hell. This massively intrusive “feature” forces you to
periodically reset each building. Use the auto-balancing
tool and say goodbye to large chunks of your budget.

Afterlife is a fun diversion for sim lovers. It brings out
your best anal-retentive qualities and it’s humorous. But ET SHE AIN’T. Follow
if you’ve never played SimCity pass up Afterlife and grab souls as they try various
the original for its superior gameplay. — TomokoShimizu rewards and punishments.

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richly detailed artwork.

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will have you giggling, too. The first graphics application specifically
designed to create photorealistic caricatures, Goo’s unique set of
tools let you treat any electronic image as if it were made of Silly Putty.
With just strokes of the mouse — no modal dialogs or floating
palettes — you can bend, squash, stretch, squish, smear, grow,
shrink, twist, and twirl smoothly and with
immediate feedback, any electronic image.
The Goo CD-ROM even comes with a gen-
erous supply of pictures to get you started.

The nucleus of Goo is the Goo Room,
where you get to work your magic with a
set of nifty tools. Distortion effects are
arranged in two colorful necklaces that
look like strings of M&Ms. The first string
contains brush-based effects including:
Move, Smear, Mirror/Toggle, Smudge,
Nudge, Grow/Shrink, and Smooth. The
Mirror tool is particularly useful for work-
ing with faces and other bilaterally sym-
metrical subjects because it lets you copy
effects from one side of an object to the
other. For example, using the mirror tool,
you can apply Goo effects to both eyes on a
face at the same time. The second necklace
string applies global effects, such as Twirl
and Rotate, that affect the whole picture at
once, not just the area under the cursor.

Goo also lets you create animation in
both QuickTime and in its own native for-
mat, called Goovies. Goovies are entirely
keyframe-based, meaning the program
interpolates frames between key images.
To make a keyframe, select a keyframe
position in the Goovie strip at the bottom of
the screen and click on the down arrow. At
least two keyframes are required to make a
Goovie, but the number of keyframes is
limited only by RAM. The downside:
Goovies aren’t compatible with any other
program, and can’t be played outside of
Goo. Fix to the downside: export the
Goovie to QuickTime format.

GOO-FUSION: Combine images in the
Fusion room. Lassie never looked this
happy on TV.

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GOO-LIBRARY: The Goo CD contains
a library of faces and other images
for you to play with. Go ahead— Goo
the president.

GOO-MAP ROOM: You’ll see the Map
Room first off— and loo often after
that. Goo needs more keyboard short-
cuts for power Goo-users.

DESPITE ITS ODD, unMac-like interface, you’ll be warping, distorting, and
otherwise goo-ing friends and enemies alike in a short time.

Goovies aren’t Goo's only fun. Want to put rabbit ears on your
boss? Just check into the Fusion Room. Here you combine parts of
two images to make a third, using adjustable painting, smoothing,
moving, and smearing tools. As with any compositing or morphing
effort, you get better results if the two base images are similar in size,
shape, orientation, and background. (Because Goo has no standard
image-editing tools, you may have to make a trip to Photoshop to
prepare your images for Goo-ing.) Fusion Goovies can’t actually be
made in the Fusion Room; you must move interim Fusion images to
the Goo Room and drag them onto the Goovie keyframe strip.

Sophisticated technology underlies Goo’s bizarro transforma-
tions. Resolution-independent Goo operations occur in a layer
above — without changing — the original image. The quality of
image output is limited only by available RAM. You can also reverse
the Goo process step-by-step, at any time. The Goovie technology is
particularly impressive. Each Goovie keyframe is only around 50K,
so even a fairly long Goovie takes up less room, plays more
smoothly, and has better image quality than the same movie
converted to QuickTime.

MetaTools has always marched to the beat of a different drummer
when it comes to interface design, so it’s no surprise that Goo uses
few Mac metaphors. To do common operations like loading and
saving files, you must swap in and out of various Goo rooms; which
is a slower and more cumbersome process than simply popping up
a dialog box, pressing a key combination, or using drag and drop.
Most common Mac keyboard commands don’t work within Goo
(except Command-Q for Quit, and Command-Z for undo). The
graphic-screen interface is barely usable on older 68K-based Macs
because it doesn’t use Apple-optimized System calls.

The upside of Goo’s toy-like interface is that even nonreading six-
year-olds can get the hang of it with minimal effort — don’t imagine
that Goo is only a kid’s program. It’s really a program for the kid in
all of us. — Steven Anzovin

GOOD NEWS: The most silly fun of any graphics program you've
seen. High-quality results geared specifically for facial manipulations
and caricatures. Easy to learn. Colorful screens appeal to children.
BAD NEWS: Nonstandard interface will bug Mac purists. Limited
animation tools. Poor performance on 68K machines.

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3D Web Workshop 1.0

ir: Specular International
Contact 800-433-SPEC; http://www.specular.cont
Price: $399 |srp)

System Requirements: Macintosh with FPU or Power
Mac, System 7.0 or later, 8MB RAM, CD-ROM drive

W e’ve all heard that the Web is the Multi-
media Medium Of Tomorrow. But most
home-brewed Web pages are grayer and duller
than a lump of lead. Enter Specular’s 3D Web Work-
shop 1.0, a graphics-oriented software bundle aimed
directly at the Web-lorn. With this smart package and
a little ingenuity, even code-challenged non-program-
mers can come up with a compelling Web site.

Web Workshop centers around Adobe’s PageMill,
a graphic interface used to create Web pages without
having to deal with HTML (HyperText Markup Language). PageMill
works like a page-layout program, although it is not nearly as power-
ful as PageMaker or QuarkXPress. There are two modes with which
to work with Web pages: Edit Mode and Browse Mode. In Edit Mode,
you can arrange graphics and text and create links to other pages

SPECULAR L0G0M0TI0N WEB EDITION’S StageHands
offer automatic animated effects.

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Default text styles make dull pages

without typing URLs (although
you can, if you prefer to work
that way). In Browse Mode,
your page acts as if it were on
the Web, allowing you to test
links to other pages.

PageMill basically sticks to
the HTML 2.0 standard.

Unfortunately, it inherits some
limitations from HTML itself,
which do not allow exact
placement of images or text,
and rely on the browser for
page size and formatting. Also,

PageMill doesn’t show you
HTML at all, which will alienate more experienced Web users. (More
direct access to HTML tags and URLs are promised for PageMill 2.0,
which Specular says it will offer as an upgrade.)

Logomotion Web Edition puts the “3D” in 3D Web Workshop.
While you won’t be making VRML worlds (like you could with
Specular’s Infini-D), Logomotion will make snazzy 3D banners. You

work mainly with
prefab models (or
text) and animate
them with simple

BEVEL AND RENDER
TEXTURES WITH
SHADOWS AND
HIGHLIGHTS with
Specular TextureScape
Web Edition.

... AND THE PAGE AFTER using
Adobe PageMill's WYSIWYG editor.

animation assis-
tants called Stage-
Hands. Users of non-Web
versions of Logomotion will be
happy with the new interface.
Self explanatory icons and ani-
mated previews have taken the
place of most menus.

Also included in the
package are WebHands-1500
Web-oriented, clip art files that
will meet most Web design
needs. The buttons, arrows,
bullets, and flags are available
in a range of styles, are fully
customizable, and are
optimized for fast downloading. Some WebHands can be animated
with GifBuilder, a freeware animated GIF creator. Unfortunately, older
Web browsers can’t play animated GIFs and neither can the bundled
version of PageMill. You’ll have to view your Web page in a Navigator
2.x-compatible browser to see it in its animated glory.

Specular’s TextureScape
Web Edition rounds out the
bundle, providing a texture-
generation program for
creating unique backgrounds,
buttons, and textures for use
in Logomotion. TextureScape
works by using various para-
meters to tile PostScript
shapes. By layering these tiled
shapes you can make very
complex patterns. The
program allows you to bevel
and render shapes with
shadows and highlights. With
TextureScape’s built-in sequencer, you can animate complex
shape-morphs and texture changes. But please take pity on your
reader’s eyes before going overboard with the background confetti.

3D Web Workshop is a useful, well-thought out package. Specular
even throws in Netscape Navigator 2.0 and an introductory subscrip-
tion to a service provider, Earthlink Network — but the very notion of
thousands of Web pages full of animation and flashy graphics is
enough to bring the Internet backbone to its knees. Graphics-heavy
Web pages scream for bandwidth that just isn’t available yet. So while
Web Workshop may cure the proliferation of flat, gray Web Pages, it
can also tempt you into graphics overkill. -RafAnzovin

GOOD NEWS: An excellent bundle of Web-authoring tools.

It’s all you need to create eye-catching pages.

BAD NEWS: Overuse of the widgets will cause people to run away
screaming from your home page.

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WebBurst

PUBLISHER: PowerProductlon

CONTACT: 310-937-4411; httptfwww.powerproduction.com
PRICE: $199 (srp)

REQUIREMENTS: System 7.0 or later, 4MB of free RAM, 68030 or better

A re you ready to make your Web site go from plain Jane to vain
Jane? WebBurst is a spicy new application that allows
non-programmers to produce Java applets — small, animated
applications that 'net surfers can play from their Web browser. It’s
specifically designed for creative, visually-sawy Web page designers
who want to produce their own Java-powered sites.

Until now, in order to get Java on a Web page, you’d have to shell
out serious bucks to hire a Java programmer, or endure a steep
multi-month learning curve. WebBurst enables those of us who are
devoid of any and all programming skills to create Java applets using
simple, standard, drag and drop techniques. You no longer need to
know Java, C++, or Lingo to quickly build interactive sound and
animations into your Web pages.

In WebBurst, your canvas is the Applet Window. Creating applets
is a three-step process. First, you must have content. Either import
items you have already created (simply drag and drop
any PICT image, AIFF or SND sound file, or any text file into the
Applet Window), or design images and text from scratch using
WebBurst’s simple tool bar. An applet can contain an unlimited
number of elements.

Next, you’ll assign actions to the art using the Action Control
Palette. You can create links to other documents, animate objects,
create ifdhen interactions, and make objects move. Repositioning
individual items is painless. TWeak your applet to your heart's
content and see the result simply by clicking the run button. You
shouldn’t hold back when you feel the urge to experiment with
animation effects, because every object resides in its own layer.

Finally, save your applet and choose “Export to Java Powered
Applet.” WebBurst will create a single folder containing all Java code
and supporting flies. It will even write the HTML code for you.

You can view the applets either locally or live, in a Java-enabled
browser. Betas of the 3.0 versions of both Internet Explorer and
Netscape Navigator are Java-enabled. Simply drag the HTML file that
WebBurst created onto the browser window in order to view it.

Other key features include the ability to embed scrolling
messages on a Web page, integrated 32-bit color (8-bit color edit-
ing), color drawing tools (line, rectangle, round rectangle, oval,
polygon, and freehand), alpha channel support, and graphic object
grouping and ungrouping. Also included are many tools for
interface construction, as well a handful of pre-made buttons and
animations. And, WebBurst lets you access all of the code it creates,
so if you do want to make adjustments via programming, you can.

While grokking the interface is as simple as solving a second
grade word problem, once you feel the urge to delve into the more
advanced realms you might run into some minor problems with the
documentation. It lacks detailed step-by-step instructions for the
more advanced features. This is more a minor speed bump in your
WebBurst experience, than a brick wall. With a litde time and

THREE STEPS TO
A JAVA APPLET

Step 1 : We made a Java applet out of this alien
from T/Maker's ClickArt collection. First we dragged a
folder ot three PICT files onto the Applet Window. This
created a new button on the Library Toolbar.

Step 2: Click on the play button in the Action Control
window. You'll get a pop-up menu. Choose the animate
option and you're in business. WebBurst will animate
the object for you.

Step 3: With WebBurst, it took just five short
minutes— from importing images to exporting preview-
able HTML— to create a fully functional Java applet.

patience you should be able to swing password protected applets in
no time.

If you are ready to have your Web pages go from static to dra-
matic, WebBurst is an essential weapon to add to your arsenal. For
$199, roughly the price of a nearly purebred Chihuahua, a cross-
country Greyhound ticket, or a single tire for your 4x4, you can own
WebBurst. Clear out a 2MB plot of hard drive space so that WebBurst
can find a happy home on your Macintosh. — Heidi Swanson

GOOD NEWS: Great interface. Easy to use. Lets you create Java
applets without learning to program.

BAD NEWS: Skimpy documentation. Lacked detailed instructions
on how to use advanced features.

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SmartSound for Multimedia

DEVELOPER: Sonic Desktop Software

CONTACT: 800-454-1900; http://www.sonicdesktop.com

PRICE: $179.95 (srp)

REQUIREMENTS: CD-ROM drive, System 7.0 or later, 68020 or better

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Jhen people ask if you can play an instrument, do you answer,
“Sure, I play the stereo”? Kidding aside, if you’d like to add
soundtracks to your home movies without learning to play
guitar or perform audio editing — and your musical talent resides in
your ability to push the stereo buttons — check out SmartSound for
Multimedia. This program offers professionally composed, performed,
and recorded music that can be sliced and diced and then rearranged,
generating an endless variety of new compositions. Moreover, despite
the program’s hobbyist orientation, the results sound like you’ve spent
years practicing.

The Maestro feature gives you a quick start on SmartSound, direct-
ing you through a six-step composi-
tion process. First you’re asked how
the soundtrack will be used — as an
opening or as background music, for
example. Specify a length (within a
tenth of a second), and then select
one of several music styles including
rock, big band, country, and others.

Your first three screen selections
determine your options in the fourth
screen where you choose a source
recording (sound file) upon which to
base your soundtrack. A button lets
you preview each piece to be sure
you’ve selected an appropriate “ener-
gy level.” The program then
rearranges the original pieces into several new versions. After audi-
tioning the options and making your selection, simply name the piece

and save it as an 8- or 1 6 -bit,
1 1 or 22kHz, ADFF, QuickTime,
or Wave file.

Once you’re familiar with
SmartSound you can quickly
create perfectly acceptable
soundtracks that always sound
thoughtfully composed with a
natural flow and a definite
beginning, middle, and end.
Easily change parameters by
making a new selection in the
appropriate Maestro screen.
The software then obligingly
recomposes the piece.

BASED UPON SELECTIONS FROM
previous screens SmartSound’s
Maestro generates several new
compositions from an original
sound file.

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USE THE CONTROLLER TO OPEN a soundtrack and change its
parameters. SmartSound will then re-compose the score.

TO CREATE A SOUNDTRACK FROM SCRATCH, simply drag Blocks from the Block window
into the Sequencer window where they snap into place along a timeline.

THE BLOCK WINDOW
holds all Blocks that
make up a particular
sound file. Use the
Block Clipper— below
the toolbar— to cut a
section out of a
Block and save it
as a new one.

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The Maestro has a fast and easy front-end, but its connect-the-
dots approach may be too restrictive
for some composers. For more cre-
ative control, SmartSound offers a
unique audio editing section.

SmartSound chops its original
recordings into little chunks called
Smart Blocks. A Block can include
anything from a single orchestra hit
to a one- or two-measure “phrase.”
Blocks can be used over and over and
combined in any order (play a Block
by clicking on it).

Create a composition by simply
dragging a Block from the Blocks
window into the Sequencer where it
snaps into place along a timeline.
Small markers indicate choice opening and ending Blocks, but you
needn’t follow the suggestions.

Each time you drag a Block into the Sequencer, SmartSound flags
several Blocks that logically fit the musical sequence, and it will mark
awkward connections in red indicating possible trouble. A Smooth
tool effectively blends (cross-fades) abrupt transitions.

SmartSound’s drag-and-drop environment encourages experi-
mentation. Insert new Blocks, delete those that don’t work, and
rearrange Blocks into new combinations. Start a piece, designate
an endpoint and SmartSound finishes it. Personalize your sound-
track with effects: Fade In/Out, Echo, Stutter, Distortion, or Ping-
Pong. Better yet — import your own Blocks from audio-CD tracks.

SmartSound’s approach may seem impractical at first, but the
program soon lives up to its promise. For beginners and pros alike
it’s a quick easy, and fascinating way to produce custom music for
multmedia. — David M. Rubin

GOOD NEWS: Easy-to-use interface. No technical knowledge needed.
“Hinting and warning" feature encourages good results.

BAD NEWS: Full manual only provided on disc. 16-bit/44.1kHz
versions of the sound files require the purchase of an additional CD.

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Gryphon Bricks

PUBLISHER: Gryphon Software
CONTACT: 619-536-8815; http://www.gryphonsw.coin
REQUIREMENTS: Color Macintosh with 13” or larger monitor,
4MB of RAM, System 7.1 or later (System 7.5 recommended
for scripting fonctions), CD-ROM drive

'ou’d think we’d pass a toy like this on to the Brisbane
Elementary School and let the kids have at it. Wrong.
We kept it to ourselves, and tore open the box as soon
the developers left
the building.

Bricks is exactly
what it sounds like: a
virtual set of building
blocks. The interface
is a piece of cake to

NOT ONLY DOES BRICKS PRINT out a picture of your
model, but you can print parts lists and instructions,
too. This is invaluable if you opt to make a real model.

learn — just pick the desired shape and lists of parts. There are

by moving pieces and
recording their places
with AppleScript. Woo-
hoo! Look out Web,
here we come!

The CD-ROM also
includes a kids’ ver-
sion that uses a
slimmed-down. Like
Gryphon’s Colorforms,
KidBricks uses voices
to guide children
through dialogs. The
interface is all up
front, so kids don’t
have to scroll through
funny — if potentially

color brick from the tool palette, and
place it in the main window.

You’ll run out of imagination before
Bricks runs out of bricks. There are 18 sets of bricks
ranging from basic rectangles and plates, to doors
and windows, to figures and vehicles — adding up to
well over 300 different shapes that can be made any
color in the X-color palette. The sets are stored in
suitcases, so whenever Gryphon creates more sets,
you can drop them right in.

There’s a knack to placing bricks in the proper
spot and it takes a while to develop the skill.
Fortunately, a multiview option shows the model
from the top, front, and side. Be sure you’ve grabbed
the right brick, though; if you work too quicldy , you
may easily move the wrong brick.

In addition to being a brilliant toy, Bricks is also
a wonderful Mac program. Every appropriate Mac
technology, from AppleScript to Program Linking, is
exploited, enhancing the program’s functionality.
You can print your model as a picture, a parts fist, or
as layer-by-layer instructions. With the network tool,
you can share your models with others.

Gryphon Bricks takes advantage of Apple
Script — here’s your chance to learn it and still have
a lot of fun. Simply record your actions in Gryphon
Bricks with Apple’s Script Editor, and create a sam-
ple script that can be dissected to see how it works.
Also, all automation, from building figures to mak-
ing QuickTime movies, is done with AppleScript.
Yes, we said, QuickTime. Make stop-motion movies

annoying — sounds with the various buttons.

This is not to say that Bricks is all rose and no thorn.
In fact, sometimes the very simplicity of the interface
gets in the way. Some shortcut keys are overloaded — the
same key will do a different thing depending upon
whether a brick is selected. Perhaps it would make
more sense to have a modify key?

There are also a few drawing glitches. When you
switch quickly between the Select and Place modes, the
cursor leaves an outline of the current shape. You can
force the program

to redraw the win-
dow by dragging
the command pa-
lette over the mis-
drawn outline,
then moving the
palette back.

Barring the feel
of working with real
building blocks,
Bricks is a stupen-
dous toy. It could
use some polish
(but so could every
1.0 release) and
we’re not going to
punish an innova-
tive product for not
being perfect.

— Kathy Tafel

Bricks Tricks,

FIND A
DEMO Of
Gryphon
Bricks
The Disc.

• Option-click on a color to paint an
entire selection.

• If you want to rotate a piece prior to
placing it, deselect it (Command-H),
then use the left and right arrow keys.
If a piece is already selected, the
arrow keys will nudge it instead.

• Experiment with the scripts — hiding a
portion of the model speeds things up
as the program has less to draw.

• To use the networking option, one Mac
will need to turn on program linking in
the Sharing Setup control panel and
allow the other user to connect via the
Users and Groups control panel. Then,
select some bricks and choose
“Transmit selection" from the
Import/Export Script Menu Item.

USING BRICKS’ SCRIPTING FEATURES, you can make
QuickTime movies. This movie of a couple sitting down to
a romantic dinner took about three hours to construct.
(See the movie on The Disc.)

GOOD NEWS: Your sister won't stomp on your masterpiece. You
won’t run out of pieces. You can print parts lists and instructions.
Brilliant use of Mac technologies.

BAD NEWS: Occasional drawing glitches. Pokey on 68K Macs.

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Stufflt Deluxe 4.0

DEVELOPER: Aladdin Systems
CONTACT: 408-761-6200; http://www.aladdinsys.com
PRICE: $129.95 (srp); $29.95 upgrade
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: System 6.05 or later

T he Mac’s premiere compression utility is now up to 30 percent
faster than its forerunners and it boasts super-slick integration
with the Finder. With the True Finder Integration, or TFI,
control panel installed, double-clicking a Stufflt archive opens what
looks, and acts, like a Finder window to reveal the archive’s
contents. You can get info on any item, compress, and decompress
by moving files and folders in and out of the window, and even launch
archived items. About the only difference between normal Finder
windows and archive windows is that you can’t view the contents of
archive windows using the Finder’s icon views.

You can also now create a Stufflt archive of a file or folder in the
Finder by simply adding “.sit” to the end of its name. Adding “.sea”
turns the archive into a self-extracting archive. Similarly, archives or
self-extracting archives can be decompressed merely by removing
the suffix. In previous versions, these features depended upon

having Stufflt SpaceSaver — Aladdin’s bundled background file com-
pressor — installed. You can also compress, decompress, and make
self-extracting archives via a Finder menu, and even send the archives
to a mail program like Eudora for shipping out to cyberspace. Stufflt
also now lets you segment archives merely by dragging flies onto it.
However, despite this convenience we’d like a segment command.

Stufflt is also now more flexible. It offers a very high level of
scriptability via either AppleScript or Userland Software's Frontier
so that you can automate Stufflt’s operation, send and receive scripts
from telecom or other software, and write custom utilities. And
Stufflt’s polyglot features let you encode and decode a variety of PC
and Internet formats, although the ability to create PC-standard .zip
flies is overdue. As a consolation, Aladdin includes Stufflt Expander
for Windows, which lets PC users decompress Stufflt files.

Aladdin has moved forward this Mac standard and it has released
a product with far fewer bugs than in 3.0. Those for whom user
interface defines Mac software will find the new Finder integration
best-in-class, while for power users, there’s plenty of wiring to
tinker with under the hood. — Ross Scott Rubin

GOOD NEWS: Clever Finder integration and increased drag and drop
capabilities provide a troly Mac-like experience.

BAD NEWS: The Magic Meno still doesn't qoite live op to its name.

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Eudora Pro 3.0

PUBLISHER: Qualcomm

CONTACT: 800-2EU-DORA; http://www.eudora.com
PRICE: $89 (srp); $39 to upgrade
REQUIREMENTS: Mac Plus or better, System 7.0 or later,
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YOUR MAILBOX SHOWS you messages at a glance. The new version will
also download only headers from the server, allowing you to pick and
choose which messages to retrieve.

T here’s a new version of Eudora, and if you get a lot of e-mail,
maybe you should even consider paying for this one. It offers a
host of new features and improvements, from enhanced filtering
to a new plug-in architecture. To upgrade, just launch Eudora, and
it reads your mailboxes and nicknames. Eudora now uses drag and
drop, so you can edit text by dragging it around and you can drag
attachments into messages, obviating the need for Command-H.

Message text can be styled with font, size and color. Unfortunately,
Eudora’s MIME text/enriched type standard can’t read Cyberdog's
MIME multipart/altemative type. E-mail from friends who have gone
to the ‘dog gets mangled. At least Web site and ftp archive address-
es within messages now are active links. But Eudora doesn’t use
Internet Config — you have to manually indicate your helper apps.
The Address Book now stores snail mail addresses, phone

numbers and nicknames. Data import and export between a PIM and
Eudora isn’t easy, though you can drag addresses from Eudora into
tab-delimited text files (but PIM output must be massaged to get it
into Eudora) . There’s also a highly customizable, but Windows-esque,
toolbar. The toolbar obscures the desktop; you can’t move it, but you
can turn it off. Eudora’s use of AppleScript is the most thorough of
any e-mail reader, albeit a little strange. For instance, you'd think that
the body of a message would be field “body.” Nope. It’s just field
Eudora is a stable program that is incredibly fast on Power Macs.
Like a Twinkie, Eudora’s insides are the best part. — Kathy Tafel

GOOD NEWS: Fast and flexible. Heavy-duty scripting support.
BAD NEWS: Reading e-mail in a spreadsheet is a little weird.
Mangles Cyberdog mail. Quirky interface.

FIND A
DEMO of
Eudora 3.0
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PAUL CEZANNE ■ TOMMY ■ NIXON ■ CORY EVERSON ■ NINE WORLDS ■ ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPACE AND UNIVERSE ■ OUR SECRET CENTURY

J udging from the looks of this month’s CD-ROM selection, sounds, we’ve found that a Web link is no cure-all for crummy
producers are betting the bank on the Internet. Three titles content. In fact, the titles that most charmed and amazed us
offer direct access to their own Web sites for timely updates on this time around carry on quite well without an Internet crutch,
fitness, science, and even dead presidents. But sexy as it all Read on for the low down on the must haves and maybe nots.

Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe

PUBLISHER: DK Multimedia
lONTAC: 800-356-6575; ^ ^

http://www.dk.com ^

PRICI $39.95 (street)

REQUIREMENT! 2X CD-ROM,

System 7.0 or later, 25MHz 68LC040 or better,
8MB of RAM

to see a sample of the night sky anywhere in
the world from 3,000 years ago to 7,000 years
in the future. More than two hours of audio, 30
video sequences, 20 3D animations, and more
than 400 color photographs and illustrations
make it easy to digress. So, go ahead.

astronomy, the space race, the famous folks,
the birth of the universe, and some really neat
3D ships. This space is the place.

The Last Words:

Judy: The easy, clear interface made

Digress your way through the history of maneuvering simple. A great reference and

S pace addicts and NASA followers will
lose their grip on gravity when they
start exploring space with DK
Multimedia’s stellar new encyclopedia. As
comprehensive as any reference work and as
adventurous as a moon landing, this disc
blasts past its competition.

Watch Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon,
listen to the crew of Apollo 13 as they radio
back to Houston that they have one helluva a
serious problem, or check out the Star Dome

Everyone’s a winner in this race for space.

learning tool.

Mark: Pretty cool! Though the text is served
up in bite-sized chunks rather than the longer
essays buried in the bowels of Nine Planets,
the Eyewitness Encyclopedia’s superior orga-
nization and extensive use of hypertext make
it not just easy, but flat-out fun to wander
about researching all things spacey.

Adam: I built a rocket on screen and
launched it about 20 times. If I had this thing
when I was in the 6th grade I'm sure I'd be an
astronaut by now.

3 UBLiSHER: Voyager Company
CONTAC' 800-446-2001;
http://www.voyagerco.com
PRICI $29.95 (srp)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM,

System 7.0 or later, 25MHz 68030 or better,
8MB of RAM

and dramatic safety films made between 1936 Our Secret Century works as a truly effec-
and 1962. To help you make sense of these five educational tool, but unless you’re a real
creepy, yet comical, period pieces, media sucker for kitsch, we can’t figure out why

archaeologist Rick Prelinger supplements
each film with historical background informa-
tion, as well as newspaper, magazine, and
book excerpts from the era.

you’d actually spend money on these things to
watch them at home.

The Last Words:

^ ^ ■ ■ Mhen Jerry brags about tak-
™ m WtmM ing Jenny out, he learns
W V that she dates all the boys,
and he feels less important,” says the narrator
in “Are You Popular?” The next time you wax
nostalgic for the good old days, take a look at
Voyager’s Our Secret Century series for a
glimpse of how life used to be, or at least, how
people thought it should be.

The 16 films that come packaged together
as volumes 3 and 4 of this six-volume series
include samples of ‘50s social propaganda

Judy: Retro makes a live and moving
comeback; a “big brother, social decency”
comeback. All the more frightening is that
these films weren't made so very long ago...
Mark: My level of interest in kitschy ‘50s
educational films is high enough to make Our
Secret Century intriguing, but not enough to
make it riveting.

Adam: So you long for a good old-
fashioned dose of mind control from the
social-guidance propaganda experts — now is
your chance. Enjoy.

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| Nixon: The (D-ROM

Graphix Zone

IC 800-828-3838 ext. 157;
http://www.gzone.com
$39.95 (srp)

2X CD-ROM,

System 7.01 or later, 68040 or better, 8MB of RAM
(12MB for Power Macintosh)

G ood presidents come and go, but a
hot scandal lasts forever, especially
when Oliver Stone makes a movie

about it.

Hosted by Alexander Butterfield, aka the
guy who spilled his guts about the tapes to the
Senate Watergate Committee, this Nixon ROM-
umentary goes beyond mere scandal sheet
hearsay or revisionist conjecture. In addition
to scenes from Stone’s controversial movie,
Graphix Zone’s version of Nixon’s downfall is
packed with 10,000 pages of previously

unpublished documents, Nixon tape and
Watergate trial transcripts, Nixon video
footage, 3D tours of the White House, biogra-
phies of more than 250 Friends of Nixon, and
direct online access to even more Nixonia.

Despite a dull interface, the information on
the disc is intriguing, if you can get to it.
Depending upon the computer, the disc, and
assorted random factors, sometimes the disc
would work and
other times it
wouldn’t. Fiddling
with the memory
requirements didn’t
improve things.

Consistendy incon-
sistent, what could
have been a truly
valuable historical

resource was marred by its untrustworthy per-
formance, kind of like Nixon himself.

Judy: Coulda, woulda, shoulda. No music,
no movies and almost no sound. And are we
sure Oliver Stone’s stuff is the best to include
with all the historical, truth references?
Mark: it’s a nice change to see a CD-ROM
present itself as a fancifled
database rather than an inter-
active multimedia adventure.
My pleasure was only slightly
dampened by an unrespon-
sive interface.

Adam: This thing had
more bugs than a roach
motel. Sorry guys, but Nixon
could use some fixin’.

Cory Everson: Mind, Body and Soul

Philips Media
IC 800-883-3767;
http://www.philipsmedia.com/media
$39.99 (srp)

2X CD-ROM, System
7.0.1 or later, 25MHz 68040 or better, 4MB of RAM

C rack open a can of guilt, sit back at
your Mac, and let
six-time Ms. Oly-
mpia Bodybuilding Cham-
pion Cory Everson remind
you why you hate your local
aerobics instructor.

Billed as the complete
guide to total fitness, at first
glance the disc sounds

appealing. Click on an area of the body and
you’re given a list of exercises to perform,
descriptions of the exercises and their physical
benefits, and frequently a QuickTime demon-
stration. You can also use the planning pro-
gram to detail your diet down to the exact
amount of raw brains you’re going to eat on
Thesday (yes, raw brains
are a menu selection).

Even though these ideas
are useful for fitness buffs,
they’re not well-implement-
ed, resulting in little less
than a poorly designed log
book. Worse, the disc con-
tains few movies and

almost no audio. What it does offer are
screens of scrolling text squeezed into narrow
windows. No aerobics classes. No pulse-
pumping tunes. Why not just buy a book?

The Last Words:

Judy: If I’ve got to read the whole thing,
just gimme the book already. This is multi-
media, right?

Mark: Mind, Body and Soul provides very
litde you couldn’t get from a paperback
book, but I find the lack of ornamentation
almost charming.

Adam: Why can’t we give zero ratings? I
really think we should be allowed to give
zeros. I’ll start designing the icon right now.

Nine Worlds Hosted by Patrick Stewart

Palladium Interactive
iC 800-910-2696;
http://www.palladiumnet.com
IC $39.99 (srp)

2X CD-ROM,

System 7.0.1 or later, 25MHz 68040 or better,
8MB of RAM

T rekkies, back off. Nine Worlds, hosted
by Star Trek: The Next Generation’s,
Patrick Stewart, has nothing to do
with your campy cult show-there are no sexy
aliens in this space story. But, there are a slew
of interesting factoids and historical essays for
the average Joe Astronomer.

If you’re looking for a comprehensive
guide to the planets, you’ll probably be disap-
pointed by the skimpy data show on this disc.
But, cool planetary factoids and a fun travel

bit offer at least enough to impress your Other offerings include a small, but

friends the next time you go stargazing.

Longer essays covering man’s reaction to
astronomy over the ages do lend some sub-
stance to this educational lightweight.
Interesting info, even if it’s slightly text-heavy.

Space out over universally tun factoids.

enticing, collection of shareware, a tiresome
trivia game, a nifty factoid of the day, and
direct online access to astronomy sites that
include NASA and the Jet Propulsion Labs.

The Last Words:

Judy: Patrick Stewart is the man. Good
organization: by planet, by time periods, or by
topic — cool science disc.

Mark: Aesthetically beautiful, yet lame in
terms of content, Nine Worlds presents a rich-
ly detailed and tasteful technoid interface but
precious litde astronomical information.
Adam: Includes cool litde factoids you can
use to impress your friends: Pluto’s orbit is so
irregular that undl 1999 Neptune will be the
farthest planet from the Sun.

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Paul Cezanne: Portrait of Ny World

Corbis Corporation ^ ^

800-246-2065; ^

http://www.corbis.com

PRIC! $45 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM,

System 7.1 or later, 25MHz 68030 or better, 8MB of
RAM (12MB for Power Macintosh)

S h

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k

khort of digging through his trash,
kthere’s no better way of getting to
"know French painter Paul Cezanne
than by walking your way through five of his
fave hangouts that
include a peaceful
countryside, a 19 th
century train station,
a local bistro, and an
art gallery that holds
the works of artists
admired by Cezanne.

Start your tour in his

Index of works

1

ABC
F G H
J

L M N

Pad Ciianna Other artists ■

R S T
U VW
Y

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Zoom in and press your face against the screen.

studio where you can peek at a
letter to former friend Emile Zola,
or zoom in on Cezanne’s palette to
see exactly which colors he used to
create his paintings. Great classics,
as well as some of the artist’s lesser-
known works, can be found care-
fully sprinkled throughout the five
virtual environments.

Although Portrait of My World
was first created and released in
France, Corbis did a fantastic job of
remaking the origi-
nal without sacrific-
ing its integrity. The
title’s intuitive index, divided into
works by Cezanne and those of
his pals, gives thumbnail pre-
views of the paintings. Double-
clicking takes you to their places
on the disc.

Handy as the index may be,
the super-cool, new QuickMove
feature is the true timesaver. A squared-off
grid with blocks representing each screen
on the disc shows you where you’ve been
and where you still need to go before you
can say you’ve seen it all. Like the index,
clicking on a square gives you a thumbnail
of the screen it represents. The database
even remembers the settings for each user,
so you don’t have to worry about sharing
with your friends.

And share you should. The Americans

:*

The best French import since greasy fries.

have finally made a remake that's so good,
even the French aren’t complaining.

The Last Words:

Judy: The index thumbnails were a great
touch. Finally, someone actually used their
brain when they considered design and a
“user friendly” interface.

Mark: Too many CD-ROMs give the sub-
ject matter short shrift, focusing instead on
obscure footnotes and gee-whiz design gim-
mickry. Portrait of My World, by contrast,
remains lovingly focused on Cezanne’s
paintings, and is careful not to overshadow
them with trivia or gratuitous trickery.
Adam: The interface is a little too choppy
in parts, and the sound effects and the fake
French accent narration a bit cheesy... but you
know how the French love their cheese.

Pete Townshend Presents: Tommy: The Interactive Adventure

HER: MacPIay
CO 800-462-2752;
http://www.macplay.com
ICE $40 (street)

2X CD-ROM,
68040 or better, 7MB of RAM

T alk about a great rock ‘n’ roll swindle.
Either Pete’s mom finally threw out
the scrapbook she’s been keeping for
him all these years, or Townshend is just real-
ly hard up for cash. Call up a section on the
disc called Pete’s Archives and see a piece of
scrap paper upon which Pete doodled a
flower. Who... cares?

Although Tommy does pack in a variety of
nifty interviews (mostly Pete talking about
Pete) and trivia (mainly about Pete), its
treatment of the core material is downright
cheap, boiling The Who's classic rock opera
down to a collage of video snippets and
sound bites (to make more room for words
from Pete, we imagine). A neat feature lets
you compare the album, movie, and musical

versions of songs from Tommy, but the small
audio samples barely let you hear the differ-
ence among the three.

One section of Tommy (if you can find it
despite the confusing interface) , divides the
disc by song, subject, personalities, media,
and Pete’s archive. This smattering of
memorabilia leads to more disappointment
no thanks to its extremely poor design and
crummy content. Listen to a short clip of
“Pinball Wizard” found under Pete

Townshend’s demos and stare at an ear.

Just to further fatten Townshend’s wallet,
you get a final chance to stop by “Tommy Mart”
before quitting the disc. Here you’re shown the
covers of all the Tommy recordings that you
should have bought instead of this one.

The Last Words:

Judy: I'm a Who fan, but this just doesn’t
live up to its name or its potential. I liked the
‘hear the song in all three versions: play,
album, and movie-bit,’ but what’s with the
teeny-tiny sound clips?

Mark: The scrapbook of background mate-
rial might make a nice resource for those
who already know this stuff backward and
forward, but if I’m going to shell out money
for a deluxe CD-ROM of Tommy, I want
Tommy on the damned disc.

Adam: This thing is more WHY? than WHO?
and sometimes WHAT THE @?&%)!1! The first
five minutes aren’t too bad, but how many
times can you listen to Pinball Wizard, anyway?

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Get the lowdown on the latest software from the Brisbane Elementary School MacAddicts.

Y ou don’t have to be a 14-year-old male with a scream-
ing Sega Genesis to love video games. And, you don't
have to be a girl to just wanna have fun. In a massive
show of enthusiasm for non-educational software, this month’s
review board went wild over the Disney arcade games and the
PrintPaks Awesome Iron-Ons Kit. No doubt, these CD-ROMs
won’t teach your toddlers to like Tolstoy, but, according to the
kids, they’re a ton of fun.

This doesn't mean that our local over-achievers don’t appre-
ciate well-designed, cleverly written, highly interactive “edutain-
ment” — several of this month’s educational titles received fairly
warm reviews. It just means that growing up in the computer age
has given these kids high software standards.

But even young geniuses need a break every now and then.
Maybe these kids are a little tired of constantly being taught.
Maybe they just want to be kids. So let ’em.

Meet the players...

CARL LAM, Age 11, Grade 5
EXPERTISE: Math
PICK OF THE MONTH:

How Would You Survive?

ADAM ALLEY, Age 11, Grade 5

EXPERTISE: Reading

PICK OF THE MONTH: SkyTrip America

ROCKSON YAN, Age 11, Grade 5
EXPERTISE: Computers
PICK OF THE MONTH: PrintPaks Awesome
Iron-Ons Kit

AMANDA WALDO, Age 13, Grade 8
EXPERTISE: Horseback riding; fighting with Lloyd
PICK OF THE MONTH: PrintPaks Awesome Iron-Ons Kit

ANA RUDOLPH, Age 12, Grade 7
EXPERTISE: Singing and softball
PICK OF THE MONTH: SkyTrip America

ERIC GRIFFIN, Age 10, Grade 5
EXPERTISE: Baseball

PICK OF THE MONTH: GameBreak: Timon & Pumbaa’s
Jungle Games

HILARY WALDO, Age 9, Grade 5
EXPERTISE: Soccer

PICK OF THE MONTH: GameBreak: Timon &
Pumbaa’s Jungle Games

KATHLEEN MARIE MCKNIGHT, Age 10, Grade 6

EXPERTISE: Nature and naming things

PICK OF THE MONTH: Gregory & the Hot Air Balloon

LENA RUDOLPH, Age 10, Grade 6
EXPERTISE: Math

PICK OF THE MONTH: GameBreak: Timon &
Pumbaa’s Jungle Games

LLOYD WALDO, Age 11, Grade 6
EXPERTISE: F/A-18 Hornet

PICK OF THE MONTH: GameBreak: Timon & Pumbaa’s
Jungle Games

GameBreak: Timon & Pumbaa’s Jungle Games

PUBLISHER: Disney Interactive

CONTACT: 800-900-9234; http://www.disney.com

PRICE: $40 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.1 or later, 33MHz 68040
or better, 8MB of RAM

Y our kids prob-
ably won’t pick
up any extra book
smarts, but they’ll
have a darn good
time hanging out in
this jungle arcade.

Lion King scene-
stealers, Timon and
Pumbaa, run the
show in a five- Belcl1 awa Y hugs in a noxious shoot ‘em up.
game arcade that has kids throwing berries, burping at bugs, and
hopping across rivers of hippos in this interactive spin-off of the
Disney classic. The only irritation is a seemingly endless opening
animation sequence that, happily, you can turn off later in the game.
GOOD FOR GRADES: 2 to 5

LIKES: “I liked the bright colors, the funny characters, and the fun
game. You can really get hooked to it.” « Hilary

“The animations were fantastic and the games were right out of
an arcade." .Lloyd

“Well, I like the games... the graphics... you
can say I like this whole game."

. Rockson

DISLIKES: “I didn't like how
Timon and Pumbaa talk so
much.” .Lena

“The music wasn’t that
great. There were too little
games.” .Rockson

“Nothing.” « Hilary, Lloyd,
and Ana

SOUND ADVICE: “I would not like to
improve anything because the software
is great." "Eric

FINAL REPORT: Cleaner than a
real arcade and more fun than recess.

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PrintPaks Awesome Iron-Ons Kit

PUBLISHER: PrintPaks

CONTACT: 800-774-6860; http://www.printpaks.com
PRICE: $24.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.1 or later,
68020 or better, 8MB of RAM, printer

Reader Rabbit’s Reading Development Library 3

PUBLISHER: The Learning Company

CONTACT: 800-227-5609; http://www.learningco.com

PRICE: $30 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.0.1 or later, 8MB of RAM

This iron-on kit conies ready-to-wear.

K ids clamoring for
hands-on activi-
ties will have their
hands full with this
colorful, fun, and
easy-to-use iron-on
kit. Max, the beanie-
wearing dog, guides
kids through the step-
by-step process of
creating, printing, and
ironing a design on to
shirts, sheets, and whatever else their parents permit. One children’s
large T-shirt and four letter-sized sheets of transfer
paper are included. Although kids may be disappoint-
ed by the small collection of pictures, they can import
their own photos and designs.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 3 and up
LIKES: “I like the pictures you can pick to put on the
shirt. I like how they remind kids that the iron is dan-
gerous to play with." ■ Rockson

“It has terrific graphics and is virtually impossible to
mess up because it’s step-by-step, and saves auto-
matically.” ■ Amanda

“They have cool pictures and funny sayings." ■ Hilary
DISLIKES: “Well, I didn’t like that there were only a
few pictures to pick.” "Rockson
“I liked everything.” ■ Hilary

SOUND ADVICE: “Put more pictures in the picking
picture part.” ■ Rockson
FINAL REPORT: Iron-ons are back!

R eader Rabbit and Sam the Lion are back as the hosts of two
tales, “The Princess and the Pea” and “The Goose that Laid
the Golden Egg". Young readers can follow along with either story
by picking one of a cast of narrators who will read the story aloud
either page by page, sentence by sentence, or word by word. Kids
can also write letters to their favorite characters in these slightly
fractured fairy tales by clicking on a choice of pre-formed sen-
tences that are also read aloud. A simple matching game designed
to help kids with word recognition skills is rewarded by a rockin’
fiesta in the woods. Party on.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 1 to 3

LIKES: “I liked the animation and the realistic voices. The stories are
funny and not boring.” ■ Hilary

“I liked how if you were having trouble reading a word you could
click on it and it would say the word out loud." "Adam
DISLIKES: “There wasn’t much to do, just listen and watch.” "Lloyd

“I didn’t like how there
were only two stories.” "Carl
SOUND ADVICE: “Install
point-and-click interac-
tions, for example, if you
click on an airplane, it flies
away.” ■ Lloyd

“I would have the icons
be bigger and explanations
of what they did under
them.” "Adam
FINAL REPORT:
Although fond of the fairy
tales, these kids want
just a little more book for
their buck.

This arbor-harbored, two-story library uses its animal
magnetism to appeal to young readers.

I

Gregory & the Hot Air Balloon

PUBLISHER: Broderbund

CONTACT: 800-521 -6263; http://www.broderbiind.com
PRICE: $29 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CO-ROM, System 7.1 or later,
33MHz 68040 or better, 8MB of RAM

G regory Chuckwood, and his pet lizard Newt
(who has a strange dog complex) get
trapped in a runaway hot-air balloon that hits
ground near a carnival. Kids learn problem-solv-
ing skills as they help Gregory and Newt get
home by scouring the carnival for such useful
tools as a map and a helium tank. Before
Gregory gets lost, he visits his Mom's bookstore
where kids can choose from a variety of original
stories to be read aloud.

GOOD FOR GRADES: K to 3
LIKES: “I liked the fact that it made you think. I
also liked it because it was interesting and
funny” ■ Kathleen

“I liked how the background colors were. I liked how it showed
what was in Gregory’s backpack.” "Lena.

DISLIKES: “Some of the parts were boring because of long waits.
There were also some badly drawn parts.” ■ Kathleen

“My younger sister
reviewed the software
and she said ‘nothing.’”
■ Rockson

“No comment.” ■ Lloyd

SOUND ADVICE: “I

think that you should
have to do more instead
of the computer doing all
the work and fun stuff
and talking.” ■ Lena
FINAL REPORT: A
talking woodchuck and a
creepy carnival can’t go
wrong with kids, but
they’d really like to be
A wild balloon ride lands Gregory and his pet lizard in a kooky able to ride more of

carnival miles from home. Can you help him get back? the rides.

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How Would You Survive?

PUBLISHER: Grolier Interactive

CONTACT: 800-285-4534; http://www.grolier.com

PRICE: $24.99 (street) £5?

REQUIREMENTS: 300KB/sec or higher CD-ROM, System 7.01 Q-O

or later, 25MHz 68030, 4MB of RAM

K ids spoiled by modern conveniences (like computers) test their
survival skills with the ancient Egyptians, Vikings, and Aztecs.
Sounds like a challenge, but a mile in these sandals only gets you an
assortment of informative, but barely interactive, screens and one bor-
ing trivia game. Still, some young historians (see Carl) are so fascinat-
ed by these ancient cultures, they’ll take the info in any form.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 4 and up

LIKES: “It taught me a lot about how the Egyptians, Aztecs, and
Vikings survived." ■Ana

“I liked how the guide explained to me so I wouldn’t be confused.

I liked the graphics.” "Carl
DISLIKES: “It was too
complicated.” ■ Lloyd

“I didn’t like how we can
only pick three types of
people." ■ Carl

SOUND ADVICE: Make
it more understandable.”
■ Lloyd

FINAL REPORT: Better
than a text book, but not by
very much.

Learn why Egyptians loved their
mummies in this survival game.

SkyTrip America

PUBLISHER: Discovery Channel

CONTACT: 800-678-3343; http://www.discovery.com

PRICE: $34.96 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.0 or later,
Performa or better, 8MB of RAM

W hether you choose to cruise through American history in a hot-
air balloon, a hoverjet, or a winged sputter-clunker you’ll see
historical hot spots in every state and learn about key events like the
Industrial Revolution, Ponce de Leon's discovery of Florida and the
Salem witch trials. Take advantage of this time travel technique to fake
a career with the Pony Express or tour a 3D ghost town. Track your
travels by storing photos, articles, and video in your journal.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 3 and up

LIKES: “I liked that you got to see some of the most famous sites." wEric
“While delivering letters you can call up movies and stories of
important events in the past 400 years." « Lloyd

“Very nice pictures and graphics. You can learn about a lot” «Ana
DISLIKES: “It takes very long in the beginning. It takes too long to get
the thing you’re going to fly. It’s hard to quit.” »Ana
“There’s nothing to do in this

program that’s fun. There’s noth-
ing that would make a student
play it (unless the student is doing
a report.) ■ Carl

SOUND ADVICE: “Make it more
fun." »Ana

FINAL REPORT: History isn’t all
fun and games, but this trip would
be more fun if it were.

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Theo the Dinosaur

PUBLISHER: Panasonic

CONTACT: 408-653-1887; http://www.panasonic.com/cool
PRICE: $39.95 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: 2X CD-ROM, System 7.0 or later, 8MB of RAM

T heo Saurus and his dino-pals learn to read, cook, and ride
skateboards with the help of the Lava Computer in this beau-
tifully drawn, but poorly designed electronic storybook. Overall,
the clever story and cute animations were lost on bored children
itching for something to do. Even worse, if you don’t read the
manual, you won’t know that you can hit Command-Q to get back
to the opening screen.

GOOD FOR GRADES: 1 to 3

LIKES: “It has a lot of songs and sounds.” ■ Ana

“I liked how they made it educational and funny at the same
time.” ■ Eric

DISLIKES: “It wasn’t that realistic and they made the facts false.
They said that dinosaurs found the first computer (which isn’t true)
and little kids might believe
that.” ■ Ana

“It was like a carry-on story
that took too long to get to the
point.” ■ Hilary

SOUND ADVICE: The

graphics, sound. Improve the
whole software." ■ Rockson

FINAL REPORT: Extinction
is too good for this dinosaur.

Theo Saurus, get it? Kids didn't.

Travel back in time to witness 1692 justice
in action at the Salem witch trials.

K ids may love the cute, cuddly animals that host their
electronic education, but parents will want earplugs
when the teddy bears start talking. Case in point: Gregory
& the Hot Air Balloon. Our reviewers got a kick out of
adorable little Gregory and his high-pitched, fake wood-
chuck voice. Strangely, they didn’t mind the long, drawn-
out animation scene at the beginning of the disc either.

We almost went into convulsions from the woodchuck
whine. Nails on a chalkboard would have been music to
our ears in comparison. Gregory the Talking Woodchuck is
not alone: he’s just one of a new race of talking animals
overpopulating the children’s software world. Maybe one
day software developers will take pity on us and package
ear protection with their saccharine-sweet CD-ROMs.

Which brings up another packaging issue. We were
very disappointed that the PrintPaks Awesome Iron-Ons Kit
included only one large children's T-shirt to decorate. The
shirt didn’t fit anyone at MacAddict, except Cheryl, who’s
just a big kid anyway. We're wondering, where’s the
PrintPaks Awesome Iron-Ons Adult Kit?

Another adult favorite: GameBreak: Timon & Pumbaa’s
Jungle Games. We enjoyed jungle pinball and the Burper
as much as our younger counterparts. Parents won't mind
supervising their kids' computer time with cool games like
this one. And, although Timon and Pumbaa do chatter,
their voices won’t leave adults longing for bedtime.

I *

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how to

Pop in The
Disc to find
the tools you
need for these
tutorials.

Y ou probably already know that you can
create custom icons for your hard drive, fold-
ers and files by pasting pictures into the Get
Info window. TTiere are plenty of icon collec-
tions from which to choose and widgets that
create folder icons from big icons. But to fix an icon
that looks icky against a custom background, or to
change the look of all the folders on your system, or to
animate icons, you’ll need to edit icon resources.

What the heck are icon resources? And are they as
scary as they sound? Resources are bits of data stored in files in a way
that makes it easier for non-programmers to hack the Mac’s looks.
ResEdit is a program Apple made way back in 1984 to get at those
resources. The Mac includes more resources than just those for icons.

While you can hack your Mac’s alert boxes and error
strings, the safest things to fool around within ResEdit are
icons. If you try editing other kinds of resources, you
might accidentally delete the code that makes an applica-
tion run, or change it so that the desktop icons don’t show
up properly. Here’s what it boils down to: if you don’t
know what you’re doing, don’t touch it.

We’ve included ResEdit and a bunch of icon collec-
tions on The Disc. Use these resources to try the follow-
ing three icon-customization tricks: editing an icon,
changing the look of all the folders in your System at once, and creat-
ing and animating an icon for your Apple menu. Before you get start-
ed, take a look at this image of ResEdit to become familiar with its
terms and abbreviations. — Kathy Tafel

What Is All This Stuff?

Each icon has multiple versions: for example, a version
for the large icon view, a version for the small icon view,
and a version for a black-and-white monitor. You can
drag an icon from one type to another, and ResEdit will

dither it to the proper bit-depth. Alternately, you can edit
each version of an icon. Here’s what you’ll see when
you open ResEdit’s icon editor, as well as a quick
guide to what it all means.

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color”. Get it?

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window. You can paste
images from another program
in here.

u The mask tells the Finder
where to let the background show
through (the white part) and
where the mouse can click (the
black part).

I These are previews of the icon against a gray
background. You can also switch to white, black,
or your desktop background from the Icon menu.
The left-hand column shows the icon when unse-
lected, and the right-hand column shows it as
selected. Normal and Open are obvious; Offline
refers to ejected floppies.

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T his icon from Dan Cook’s ICONS! pack would be great
to use for a hard drive, except that the white between
the lightning bolts totally destroys the look of a custom
background picture. We’ll fix this using ResEdit.

Paste the icon into the hard drive’s Get Info window,
creating an invisible file which stores the icon info.
This file is located inside the folder or drive to which it
belongs. Launch ResEdit and open this file (“Icon”)
from within the program. Double-click (a) to open the
icon types then (b) on the icon to open the editor.

You’ll see this window. Here’s where you can edit the icon. Notice
how the icon looks fine against the white background, but against
the gray background the white shows through.

To fix this white-on-gray problem, click on the Mask for the icon.
The mask tells the Finder where the background will show through
(the white areas) and where it won’t (the black areas). The black
parts are also the “clickable” parts — you can’t select the icon in the
Finder by clicking on the white parts.

Select the pencil tool to erase the black parts, creating spaces by
clicking on individual pixels. You might have to switch back and
forth between the Mask view and the icl8 view a few times to get it
just right.

Switch back to the icl8 (large 256 color) icon. Notice how the back-
ground shows through on the gray preview. Save your work and
quit ResEdit. You’ll need to restart your Mac to see your changes.

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Can you imagine that most
people actually leave all of
their folders alone, going
through life never knowing
that they can have folders that
aren’t just blue and flat?

Whew! Much better — the
Manila Folder icons also
replace the icons in your
System Folder.

System Icons

I ow that you’ve got your custom icon stylin’ on one folder, go
ahead and change the icons system-wide. We’ve included a
couple of icon sets you can use to replace the default system
icon. This example uses lain Anderson’s freeware Manila Folder
Icons which you can find on The Disc.

Some folks actually muck about in their System file to change
icons. But this can get dangerous and sometimes doesn’t even
work. (Can you say “dreaded question mark”?) There’s a much
easier — and safer — way to replace these icons. Adding the icon
resources to the Finder preferences file will override the default
icons in the System and Finder files.

To get started, open your System Folder and then the Preferences
folder. Duplicate your Finder Preferences file by either option-dragging
it somewhere else on your hard drive or choosing Duplicate
(Command-D) from the File menu.

Put the Finder Preferences file at the root level of your hard drive
while you work. Always work on a copy of the Finder Preferences file
in case something should — gasp! — go wrong. Open the duplicate
Finder Preferences file and the Manila Folder Icons files in ResEdit.

Paste (Command-V) the icons into the Finder Preferences copy.
Save your work, then quit ResEdit.

Select all of the resources in the Manila Folder Icons file (Command-
A) and then copy them (Command-C).

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folder into the Trash, but don’t empty it. Place the modified copy of
the Finder Preferences file into your Preferences folder and restart
your Mac. You should see the world in Technicolor now. You can pull
your old Finder Preferences file out of the Trash and store it some-
where (rename it something like “boring Finder prefs”), or just throw
it away and forget you ever had such a hum-drum Mac experience.

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Learn to Animate

Your Icons

Z ipple is a control panel that
can be added to your
System to animate your
Apple, Help and Application
menus’ icons. Zipple collec-
tions are stored in ResEdit files,
so you can import files created
by other people, and export
those you’ve created to give to
your friends.

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You can create and save
whole bunches of animated
icons with Zipples.

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create great art with only two
tools and a 16x16 pixel grid.

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icon editing — you get to
create works of art using
only 16 colors in a 16 x
16 pixel grid. To start,
open the Zipple Control
panel, click on New, and
name your Zipple. We’ll design a Zipple of our mascot Max giving
his ever-so-subtle reaction to a really bad product.

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dition of Max in an
image editing program
and pasted it into the
Zipple frame. The Zipple
Control Panel reduced
the palette to sixteen
colors for us. We didn’t
have much room to work in, so we cut off Max’s legs — he really
wasn’t going to walk anywhere anyway.

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through. You can’t really tell the difference against a white back-
ground, but if you have a utility installed (like Aaron or Aurora)
that colors the menu bar, the Zipple would look weird.

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animation, cut-and-paste
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Max grow greener and stick out his tongue and then reverse to his
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Lesson Two here at Webmaster School teaches you how use HTML.

FIND THE

SHAREWARE
mentioned on
The Disc in
this issue.

H yperText Markup Language — HTML — is the blood and
skeleton of the World Wide Web. It’s the vital fluid that
courses through the wires and flows into your Web
browser, and it’s the bony structure that supports the
formatting of text as well as the images, sounds and links
that make the Web the loud and bright place it is. Building a page on
the Web means working with HTML. If you don’t like getting your
hands dirty, you should pick an all-in-one page-creation tool like
Adobe PageMill (though, with PageMill, you’ll be limiting the final
appearance of your pages) . If you're up for a bit of innovation, HTML
is susceptible to some creative manipulation.

Dammit, Jim, I’m an Editor,

Not a Programmer!

You don’t have to be a writer to work with HTML; You do have to be
an editor. Imagine a plain sheet of paper filled with text. You’re a
magazine editor, blue pencil in hand: emphasizing text, marking a
sentence to become a pull quote, promoting a sentence to a heading,
and marking where the illustration should go. When you’re finished,
the marked-up typewritten page is hardly readable, but in the maga-
zine it’s going to be beautiful.

Using HTML, you’ll do the same thing to a Web page. Using your
favorite word processor, you’ll mark up the original ordinary text
until it’s nearly unreadable. Then a Web browser will interpret your
markup and display something attractive, inviting, and even stunning.

I won’t teach you HTML from the ground up. There are 2,564
HTML books in the bookstores, up from six a year ago, and an equal
number of HTML-authoring Web sites.

Time Off for Good Behavior

Since many hours of work go into the best Web pages, use low-
impact work habits right from the start.

You’ll be working with your Web page open in both your word
processor and your favorite browser. First, save your page as a text
document. Then use your browser's Open or Open File command to
open your local copy of the page. (Clearly, this is a job that screams
for two monitors, but there’s no sense crying about that.)

While you’ll do most of your work in one browser, you should
download the major Web browsers so that you can see how your
pages will look to different visitors. Get Netscape Navigator, Internet
Explorer, Mosaic, MacWeb, and Cyberdog (our Web site provides
links to these browsers).

This is the recipe: Mark up some text in the word processor, save
changes, switch to the browser, dick the Reload button, check the
results, switch back to the word processor, and fix the HTML. Repeat
as needed. It doesn’t take a genius to see the need for a macro util-
ity like CE Software’s QuicKeys, Affinity Microsystems’ Tempo II Plus,
or the shareware program KeyQuencer. Assign a single command
key that switches to the browser and reloads the page, and another
command key to switch back to the word processor. If you’re lucky

Know HTML

There’s a flood of inexpensive (and expensive) tools for creating Web pages, but you already own the best tool: your favorite word
processor. Typing HTML tags into a word processor will force you to learn the language of HTML, and that’s important if you want to
create pages with a distinctive look. Take a look at these two sites to see what we mean.

Straight Out of the Box

This site uses HTML in very con-
servative ways. On the plus side,
this page loads fast and it looks
similar on every platform and
browser. But, sigh, it looks just like
every other Web page.

The Way it Oughta Be

Tweak

Tweak, (http://www.tweak.com) an irreverent
online magazine, has a distinctive look that
can’t be accomplished with traditional HTML
thinking. It uses unique fonts in the title and
the eight buttons (A and B) are not HTML
text at all, but graphics. The unusual
left/right split of the page contents is accom-
plished with a table, its border set to zero.
The buttons are aligned across the bottom
in five cells of the table: the let-most cell is
Finally, the black and white back-
round is a single background graphic, and
the table was sized to align the words nicely
inside each color. These pages don’t come
out of any page-creation application.

82 MacADDICT

Switch to the browser and click Reload. Oops.
ALIGN = “bottom” makes for an ugly page.

Browser Shuffle

Because HTML consists of text commands that are typed into a
word processing document, you'll need to constantly view the
results of the commands in a browser. Make your life easier by
keeping two windows open at once — the document that’s

marked up in HTML and your browser. You can either switch
back and forth by clicking on the windows with the mouse, or
you can create a macro to do the work for you. Either way, you'll
be doing a lot of this: type, switch, view, switch, type...

And back to the browser. Yep, that looks much better. Now
back to the word processor.

Position your windows so you can easily move back and
forth between your word processor and Web browser. Here
we've marked up some text in the word processor.

The Sights

Back to the word processor. AUGN=“right" is more along
the lines of what I want.

enough to have two monitors, a single command key can reload the
page and take you back to the word processor.

You can also use a macro utility to automate most of the HTML
markup. I use QuicKeys, for example, to accomplish probably 75
percent of what most page-creation applications offer.

Automating isn’t quite as simple as just pasting in each HTML tag,
because most tags surround text. Here’s the macro secret: cut-type-
paste-type. Here’s a sequence for italicizing a snippet of text: You
must first manually highlight the text to be italicized. Your macro will
then: Cut. "type <I>. Paste. Type </I>. A similar sequence can be
used for dozens of the most common tags.

If you're a macro-writing whiz, you can make macros for more
advanced tasks, like lists. It’s even possible to create a macro that
converts a Word table first into tab-delimited text and then into an
HTML table, all triggered by a single command-key. (Hint: each tab
represents the end of one table cell and start of another, and each
return signals the end of a cell, end of a row, beginning of a row,
beginning of a cell.)

Save more time by creating a template of a blank HTML page. At
the very least, it should contain the tags that belong on all HTML
docs: <HTML>, <HEAD>, </HEAD>, <BODY>, </BODY>,
</HTML>. You can also include a dummy title, <TITLE>Put Title
Here</TITLE> and top-of-the-doc header, <H3><CENTER>Big

Header for this Page</CENTERx/H3>, plus elements you want on
every or most of your pages, like copyright info, a Go Home icon,
and an e-mail icon. Lock the template or save it as stationery and be
happy for the rest of your days.

Will I Go Straight to Hell for
Lusting After PageMill?

If you were a car buff and you rebuilt a 1967 Mustang convertible
from the ground up in your garage, you’d be deeply in tune with its
most subtle inner workings. But no car buff manufactures wheels,
bumpers, and windshields in the garage. My point? There is indeed
a time and place for a page creation application. These things can be
undeniably handy — in fact, indispensable — for creating complex
elements like frames, which are tedious to write by hand
and hard to turn into a macro. HOt TIP!

There are a few good inexpensive tools — World Wide As you spell check your
Web Weaver ($50 from Miracle Software; 315-265-0930) HTML page in your word
and the shareware program, PageSpinner, come to mind, processor, add all the
and more arrive almost daily. (Check the list maintained common HTML tags to
at ComVista’s Internet Services Directory — you’ll find a the dictionary as you go
link to it in the Hot Links section of our Web site.) Current along— if your applica-
versions of Microsoft Word and WordPerfect include tion permits, create a
decent HTML tools, but they don’t hold a candle to the custom HTML dictionary.

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how to

how to

stand-alone applications, and they make editing the raw HTML
code difficult.

The best inexpensive compromise between a word proces-
sor and a stand-alone application is BBEdit Lite, a simple, free
word processor from Bare Bones Software that can use plug-in
extensions like Lindsay Davies' HTML Tools version 1.3, a suite
of 12 shareware utilities. These utilities perform functions like
automatically creating a list of all links within a document, and
creating the start and end points of an anchor. The learning
curve for BBEdit is a tad steeper than it is with other word
processors, but BBEdit is more flexible and powerful.

For my money, once you graduate from typing tags in a
word processor, you may as well go all the way to Adobe
PageMill. Version 2.0 may or may not have arrived by the time
you read this. New features include drag and drop conversion

m

This is the hottest tip you'll ever read here or in any book or magazine.
Find a page you admire, or one with an unusual layout or formatting, and
swipe the code. Here’s the deal: it’s all right to steal HTML formatting
ideas. It's not all right to steal the content. Got it? Find a fabulous-look-
ing page, choose Save As and then select Source from the pop-up menu.
Open the saved page in your word processor. (Note: if you open the page
in WordPerfect 3.5 or a version of Word 6 that has the Internet Assistant
installed, the HTML code will be hidden.)

Three of the best
HTML books are:

How to Use HTML3 by Scott
Arpajian (Ziff-Davis Press, 1996)
ISBN: 1-56276-390-3. Heavily
illustrated, tutorial oriented.

and installation of graphics and
sound, the ability to preview pages
from within the application, simple
graphic creation of tables and
frames, and easy access to raw
HTML code.

In the meantime, check out
these free BBEdit extensions which
fix some of PageMill 1.0’s less
attractive results. Chad Magendanz’s
Format HTML makes PageMill’s
HTML text much more readable,
and Lindsay Davies’ PageMill
Cleaner (included in HTML Tools
version 2.0) fixes some of
PageMiU’s more questionable HTML
choices. At this writing, PageMill
Cleaner works only with the
commercial version of BBEdit
($119 from Bare Bones Software,

617-676-0650).

If you do succumb to the
temptations of PageMill, please
don’t totally cave in and create all
your pages the easy way. A page-
creation tool, even the best, will I— MMW
only let you create pages that look pretty much like every other page on
the Web. Dare to create pages that go beyond HTML’s designed purpose —
learn the language. —Joseph 0. Holmes

Teach Yourself Web
Publishing with HTML 3.0 in a
Week 2nd edition by Laura
Lemay (sams.net, 1996, ISBN:
1-57521-064-9). A terrific
teacher.

HTML: The Definitive Guide

by Musciano & Kennedy
(O’Reilly & Associates, 1996,
ISBN: 1-56592-175-5). No hand
holding, but excellent detail.

Buy these books. Read these
books. Memorize these books.
In the meantime, study your
Web School lessons on effi-
ciently working with HTML.

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Command-Opdon-P-R upon startup.

Gi The mainstream media has been making a fuss lately
about computer programs that will have trouble handling dates
beginning in the year 2000. Can the Mac handle such dates?

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1, 1904 and February 6, 2040. With the introduction of the Date &
Time control panel in System 7. 1 , the Mac gained the ability to handle
dates between 30,081 B.C. and 29,940 A.D., although the control
panel currendy won't allow you to enter dates outside the range of

While it’s common knowledge that Microsoft Windows is a poor imitation of the
Mac OS, it still has some enviable features. Case in point, Wallpaper, which
allows you to put repeating patterns or full-screen pictures in the background of
the desktop. Sure, Mac users can change the Finder’s desktop pattern in the
General Controls control panel, but the Mac OS lacks the ability to display actual
pictures without a third-party utility such as DeskPicture from Peirce Software.
This control panel makes it easy to display one or more pictures on the Finder’s
desktop with System 7.0 or higher. There are all sorts of options for placing,
scaling, and automatically changing pictures, and it even supports multiple
monitors. DeskPicture used to be part of the commercial Now Fun! collection
from Now Software and is

easily worth the $19.95
shareware fee,

Peirce Software's
DeskPicture allows Mac
users to “wallpaper" the
Finder's desktop with
full-screen images, not
just repeating patterns.

1920 to 2019. It’s up to
developers to use the
Mac’s date-handling rou-
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panel as part of Mac OS 8
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control panel are stored In the Finder
Preferences file, not PRAM.

Gi My Mac keeps forgetting the settings in the Views control
panel. I’ve zapped PFiAM and rebuilt my desktop to no avail. What
do you recommend?

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stored in the Finder Preferences file, not PRAM. Chances are your
Finder Preferences file has somehow become corrupted and needs to
be replaced. Open the Preferences folder inside the System Folder and
drag the Finder Preferences file to the Trash. Upon restarting, the Mac
creates a new file from scratch with its default settings.

Qi Should I buy a level 2 cache for my Power Mac?

A In a word: yes, because a cache makes your Power Mac run
appreciably faster. Unfortunately, deciding which cache to buy is a bit
complicated, but it’s worth understanding the fundamentals to make
sure you end up with a product that suits your needs.

Inside every Power Mac is a fast PowerPC chip with a small amount
of memory called a level 1 cache. The function of this cache is to store
frequendy requested data close at hand in high-speed memory so that
it can be retrieved by the processor much faster than if the data
resided in the relatively slower, random-access memory (RAM) on the
motherboard. (Don’t confuse this RAM cache with the Disk Cache in
the Memory control panel; they are separate and unrelated.) Up to a
point, the larger the cache, the faster the overall performance of your
computer. Since a level 1 cache is built into the PowerPC chip, you
can't increase its size, but you can often add a level 2 (called L2)
cache for better performance.

Many Power Mac models have a special slot on their mother
boards for an L2 cache which looks a lot like a standard memory
module, although the two are not interchangeable. (If your Mac does-
n’t have an L2 cache slot, there’s no way to add one.) Some models

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it’s up to you decide whether to add an L2 cache. If you’re not sure if
your Mac already has an L2 cache installed, you can either open your
computer and look for a module in the cache slot or you can launch
a utility such as The L2 Company’s Cache Tester or Newer
Technology’s Cache-22, both of which determine the presence and
size of your cache, along with other useful information.

Since there’s usually only one cache slot in a Mac, you want to buy
the largest L2 cache that you think you’ll ever need. The most com-
mon cache sizes are 256 k and 512K, although some vendors have
introduced 1MB modules, and caches as large as 4MB are theoreti-
cally possible on some machines. A good rule of thumb is to get a
cache that’s at least l/32nd the size of your RAM. That means a 256K
cache for up to 8MB of RAM, a 512K cache for up to 16MB, and a
1MB cache for larger configurations. (Anyone using the DRAM based
video on a Power Mac 6100, 7100, or 8100 should get a 1MB cache
regardless of the amount of RAM, since performance is greatly
increased when the entire video image resides in cache.) There’s no
harm in getting a larger cache than you presently need, but you’ll real-
ize diminished returns as you go from one size to the next largest size.

In other words, don’t expect a 512K cache to give you twice the speed
improvement as a 256 k cache. By the way, there’s no performance dif-
ference between like-sized caches from different vendors.

Because of physical and electrical considerations, there is no
single cache that can be accommodated by every Power Mac model.
When ordering a cache, be sure to specify into which Mac it’s going (if
you’ve installed a clock accelerator, be sure to mention that, too), and
make certain the vendor offers a money-back guarantee. Because the
Power Mac 7500/100 has the highest bus speed (50MHz) of all Power
Macs, it’s proven somewhat troublesome for third-party caches. For
this reason, many Power Mac 7500 users have opted to pay
a premium for the highly regarded cache from Apple.If you
take a modicum of care, installing a cache is something
you should be able to do easily by yourself with the ven-
dor instructions. However, if your Mac is difficult to
open, or you’re unsure of yourself, it’s worth the peace
of mind to pay a technician to install the cache.

Once the cache module is installed, you should
immediately notice that processor-intensive tasks, such
as 3D rendering and sorting RAM-based information,
run much faster; benchmarks typically show an overall ac e ’ ls
speed improvement of 10 to 30 percent. However, just ' ,our Power
because the Mac seems to be
OK at first doesn’t mean every-
thing is jake. Caches can cause
intermittent problems if they’re
not properly designed for your
Mac. If your Mac exhibits
strange behavior after the
cache is installed, see if the
problem goes away when you
remove it. If so, return your
cache to the vendor for a
replacement or refund.

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sum to Apple Corps — the Beatles’ recording company —
for the worldwide rights to use the “Apple” name on comput-
er products, but not in the music field. In February 1989,
Apple Corps sued Apple Computer for marketing products
with music synthesizing capabilities. At the time, System 7
was still under development. One of the new features of
System 7 was the ability to record your own system beeps in
the Sound control panel using a microphone. An engineer
had created a sound called Xylophone (described as a stac-
cato E-flat diminished triad sound), which caused Apple's
legal department to freak since the name clearly highlighted
the Mac’s new ability to record music. Jim Reekes, the ulti-
mate authority concerning system beeps, changed the name
to Sosumi (pronounced “so sue me”) and informed legal that
the word was Japanese for “the absence of all musicality.”

#1 It’s true, some internal SCSI hard disks have the potential for data
loss, but the problem is not limited to Quantum’s Fireball mecha-
nism. You’re at risk with any internal hard disk that has its write
cache enabled. The Fireball is just an extremely popular model and
was initially deemed the culprit. If you bought an Apple-brand Mac
and haven’t enabled write cache or installed a new hard disk, you
can rest easy.

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ties incorrecdy implement write caches on SCSI hard disks. A write

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One of my pet peeves is Installer
programs that leave me with no other
option than to restart the Mac when
they’re done. I realize that if I install a new
extension it won’t be available until I
restart, but sometimes I don't care. When
I’d rather continue working than restart, I
press Command-Option-Escape and then
click Force Qu'rt. Usually this returns me to
the Finder and I can go about my normal
business. Worst case: I can’t force quit
and I must restart anyway.

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regain control of your Mac.

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Quantum Fireball hard disks
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clones) have a problem that
can cause data corruption.
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128 kilobytes) on the
drive which improves
performance by tem-
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before writing to
disk. However, when

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affect 68000-based Macs) is shut down, power may be cut off before
the drive has the chance to write the cache data to disk. Important bits
of information may be lost, causing data corruption and/or directory
damage. External drives with their own power sources are not
affected by this problem, nor are drives in Macs that require you to
physically press a power switch to complete shut down.

If you have a third-party disk utility such as APS PowerTools or
FWB Hard Disk Toolkit, the quick fix is to disable write caching on
internal SCSI hard disks (see your user manual for details) . Of course,
this means forfeiting any performance afforded by write caching, but
the increased reliability is worth the reduced speed. With the immedi-
ate threat neutralized, call your hard disk utility vendor and ask if
they’ve released an update that addresses this problem. By the time
you read this, most vendors should have drivers that allow you to keep
write caching without fears of losing data on shut down.

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against friends if the silicon opponent is too
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Heroes is not just another in the legendary
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settling new territories. On top of that, you
have to convince the heroes from Might and
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I t’s alive! Or it sure acts like it. “It” is
Mendel, an artificial creature that behaves
in ways even its creators can’t predict. How?
Mendel’s brain is driven by Complexity
theory, a mind-boggling concept only
understood by really smart mathematicians.

In most games, once you figure out the
computer enemy’s pattern, its behavior and the
solution can be predicted; whether that’s
conquering the galaxy or smashing ores. Yet, if
the game were to model reality using Complexity
theory, the enemy would beome unpredictable,
and exponentially more challenging.

Anark is a company pioneering the use
of Complexity theory in gaming.

In Galapagos, your task is to
get Mendel the hell out of
Dodge. You aren’t just
driving a cute dog
around. As you’ll find
out, Mendel has a mind
of his own.

Formed by two broth-
ers, Steve and Scott Collins,
and their cousin Justin Ebert, Anark
was named, appropriately, after the leader of a
revolution. Development Engineer Scott Collins
answered our questions about Galapagos.

MA: How would you describe Galapagos?

SC: Galapagos is really quite like having your
dog trapped in a cyber-hell — a Willy Wonka
chocolate factory of sorts — where you must help
your dog escape by simultaneously figuring out
how all of the gizmos in the worlds work and
convincing your dog (Mendel) to do all the right
things without killing himself. Gameplay ranges
from physical puzzles to pure arcade-like,
hand-eye excitement. Add an organism that con-
stantly learns from its surroundings, and you’ve
got an element of complete unpredictability that
makes gameplay different every time.

metaphor for the growth and adaptation of living
organisms that hope to escape the tyranny of
their current existence. Instead of primitive
islands, Galapagos is a series of Escher-like
cyberworlds that have quite abnormal physics.

Galapagos constandy changes — you’ll never
know what to expect next. Mendel presents
unpredictability, and so do the worlds. One of the
most difficult things about the construction of
Galapagos’ worlds has been their completely
free-form nature. There isn’t significant object or
object characteristic repetition. You’ll develop an
intense sympathy for Mendel — people become
quite paternal in their behavior.

MA: What inspired

Mendel’s design?

SC: Galapagos, the
game, is about trying to
save Mendel — to help
Mendel help himself. We
wanted a character you
would feel sympathy toward.
But if we made Mendel a dog, you
would instandy identify with him; you would
impose ideas on
him — on what he
should or should
not do. So we
wanted to create
something that
would feel syn-
thetic and alive
but fall between
the two. Not
mechanical and
robot-like, but
something you’d
think of as syn-
thetic. That way
you wouldn't have any preconceptions of Mendel
and how he should learn.

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Galapagos alive,

WITH OR WITHOUT
MY HELP.”

MA: Why the name Galapagos? MA: How does he learn?

SC: Galapagos is a metaphor for the

Galapagos islands, where divisions of water are
thought to have yielded bifurcation in the evolu-
tion of species. Mendel in Galapagos, then, is a

S C : Mendel has two types of inputs, infrared
and acoustic. These inputs are created as Mendel
moves through Galapagos sensing infrared in his
environment and hearing the volume of the

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user’s voice through a microphone. These inputs
are fed into Mendel's NERM controllers. The out-
puts of these controllers are fed into simulated
servo motors that control Mendel’s body. Based
upon the positions of these servo motors, the
positions of each and every polygon in Mendel’s
body are derived for each rendered frame, yield-
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MA: So how “smart” does that make him?

SC: Mendel is probably as “smart" as a
mouse. On the other hand, I know that the ger-
bils I owned as a kid would never make it out of
Galapagos alive, with or without my help.

MA : What are NERM Controllers?

SC: When we discuss the mathematics

behind NERM, we use an exciting branch of the-
oretical physics/mathematics known as
Complexity theory. [Editor’s note: What you’re
about to read basically describes a scientific ren-
dering of reality that doesn’t resort to “in an ideal
world” cop-outs.] Complexity theory is a mixture
of non-linear dynamic systems (differential equa-
tions) and probability theory that is used to build
models for seemingly disparate systems. For
example, you might use similar language to
describe a stock market, the evolution of species,
the behavior of celestial bodies, and how mold
grows on the bread that is on your refrigerator.

Non-stationary Entropic Reduction Mapping
(NERM) is the creation of order out of chaos.
The controller begins completely unordered and
without form: primordial soup. Over a period of
time the controller develops into an order of its
own. That’s how Mendel expresses order.

MA: How do the mappings work?

SC: Mappings are connections between

inputs and outputs. At first, a NERM mapping
looks like noise. The controller will adjust itself
to minimize this error. With time it forms map-
pings: one-to-one mapping or a probability dis-
tribution (see “From Fuzz to Patterns”).

Here’s an example from Galapagos. Mendel
has been alive for five hours, which is enough to
learn the motor functions necessary to survive.

He’s staying out of trouble; not jumping into lava
pools or jumping off of cliffs. He’s learned how to
his control body with input from his two senses:
infrared and acoustic.

This doesn’t happen in the game, but say you
push a button rerouting all infrared sensory
information to acoustic — like you were hooking
up sight to hearing, and vice versa — seeing
sound and hearing sight. Mendel would be com-
pletely maladjusted. But Mendel’s NERM con-
trollers would completely reorganize so that he
would see sight and hear sound again. This is an
example of adaptation over time.

M A: So how do the NERM controllers make
decisions? Say my brain were a NERM controller,
and my husband asks where his shoes are.
Would I then create a mapping like, 50 percent
of the time I give the location of the shoes, 25
percent of the time I say “1 dunno,” and the other
25 percent of the time I respond “I ate them”?

SC: Well, sort of. Your description is an
example of a single-solution mapping described
by a probability distribution. In addition, NERM
could create a second mapping where your hus-
band asked where his shoes were and 45 percent
of the time you responded by giving him the loca-
tion of his shoes, and 55 percent of the time you
told him that you didn't like his tie.

Of course, he might then ask you about his tie
and you would tell him that it’s out of style.
However, had you initially responded by giving
him the location of his shoes, he might ask you
about his tie and you would change the subject by
talking about this really cool technology compa-
ny called Anark. — Kathy Tafel

From Fuzz To Patterns:

The three stages in a NERM controller’s
learning: when it just begins to learn, a
more advanced stage, and a final
converged state of development. Notice
the order emerging from chaos. Hey
look, it’s an arc. Get it? Anark!

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Mayan worlds are accurate down to the
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Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness promises to
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